Sunday August 16, 2015
Location: 12th floor Conference room, Lowenstein building
Fordham University, Lincoln Center Campus, 113 West 60th street, New York
10023
| Pre-Conference Workshop Introduction to Facet Theory and its Applications |
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| Ingwer Borg, University of Münster, and Patrick Mair, Harvard University | |
| 8:00-9:00 am | Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00-10:15 am | Facet Theory: Introductory Examples |
| Basic Notions of Facet Theory | |
| Partial Order Structures | |
| Intuitive MDS by Hand and by Using Permap (Perceptual Mapping Interactive Software) | |
| Elementary MDS using SPSS/Systat | |
| 10:15-10:30 am | Coffee Break |
| 10:30-12:30 pm | Computing and Evaluating MDS in R |
| Doing MDS Using the SMACOF Package in R | |
| MDS: Criteria of SMACOF Goodness, MDS for Facet Theory Users | |
| Computations for MDS Goodness of Fit Assessments | |
| 12:30-1:30 pm | Lunch |
| 1:30-3:30 pm | Regions and Regional Patterns in MDS Space for Facet Theory Users |
| 3:30-3:45 pm | Coffee Break |
| 3:45-5:15 pm | Unfolding Models, Applications, and How to Implement them |
| 5:15-5:30 pm | Coffee Break |
| 5:30-6:00 pm | Conclusion, Q&A |
| 6:30 pm | Informal Reception |