[Forum SIS] IASC-ERS Summer School on Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA), 7-11 July 2014

[Vincenzo ESPOSITO VINZI]

This is the first announcement of an event of the European Regional Section
of the International Association for Statistical Computing (IASC-ERS):

*Summer School on Compositional Data Analysis (CoDA)*
*7-11 July 2014*
*Girona, Spain*

Compositions are vectors whose components show the relative importance of
some parts (in percentages, ppm, ppb, or the like) of a whole.

Typical examples are: economy (income/expenditure distribution), medicine
(body composition: fat, bone, muscle), food industry (food composition:
fat, sugar, …), geochemistry and chemometrics (chemical composition),
ecology (abundance different species), sociology (time-use surveys), and
genetics (genotype frequency). This hot topic of research has nowadays a
broad impact in these fields.

The goal of the IASC-ERS CoDA Summer School in 2014 is to learn the basic
concepts on CoDA and introduce its multivariate techniques (cluster
analysis, discriminant analysis, regression models, etc).

Statisticians and applied scientists of any field, in particular
engineering geologists, geologists, economics, scientists, environmental
engineers, and bio&environmental scientists, working in academic or
industrial institutions, are strongly encouraged to take the IASC-ERS
Summer School on CoDA. It is recommended that attendants have already
undergone some first semester courses on statistics. Basic knowledge about
multivariate statistics may also be handy.
Due to the class room facilities at the UdG, the places are limited to 30.
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*Early registration is recommended (will open on October 1st, 2013 at:
www.compositionaldata.com//pages/codacourses/codacourse_form.html).*

Further information at *www.compositionaldata.com* as well as in the list
of forthcoming events on the IASC website: *www.iasc-isi.org/node/41*

The CoDA IASC-ERS Summer School is organized by the Research Group on
Statistical MEthods in resTRICted spaceS (METRICS) from the Computer
Science, Applied Mathematics and Statistics Department of the University of
Girona (UdG).

More information on the CoDA School is available at: *
www.compositionaldata.com//pages/codacourses/Short_description_CoDACourseUdG_IASC2014.pdf
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*We would be grateful if you could forward this announcement to your
students and colleagues.*

Our best CoDa-regards,

J.A. Martín-Fernández
(Organizer)
josepantoni.martin at udg.edu
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