Biography
Andreas Alfons is an Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research lies on the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and psychometrics, with an emphasis on data-driven regularization techniques as well as methods that are robust to outliers and deviations from model assumptions. He is an author and maintainer of several software packages for the open-source statistical computing environment R, and a proponent of open and responsible science. Currently, he is leading the NWO Vidi project "Robust Analysis of (Big) Rating-Scale Data in the Social Sciences", and he is involved in the interdisciplinary sectorplan project "The Influence of Digitalization on Work, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship" as a theme lead for the theme "Digital Decision Support". In addition, he is on the editorial team of the Journal of Statistical Software and the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualisation.
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Work
- Andreas Alfons & Max Welz (2024) - Open Science Perspectives on Machine Learning for the Identification of Careless Responding: A New Hope or Phantom Menace? - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18 (2) - doi: 10.1111/spc3.12941 - [link]
- Andreas Alfons, Aurore Archimbaud, Klaus Nordhausen & Anne Ruiz-Gazen (2024) - Tandem clustering with invariant coordinate selection - Econometrics and Statistics - doi: 10.1016/j.ecosta.2024.03.002 - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2023) - robustHD: Robust Methods for High-Dimensional Data - [link]
- Aurore Archimbaud, Andreas Alfons, Klaus Nordhausen & Anne Ruiz-Gazen (2023) - ICSClust: Tandem Clustering with Invariant Coordinate Selection - [link]
- Klaus Nordhausen, Andreas Alfons, Aurore Archimbaud, Hannu Oja, Anne Ruiz-Gazen & David E. Tyler (2023) - ICS: Tools for Exploring Multivariate Data via ICS/ICA - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2023) - robmed: (Robust) Mediation Analysis - [link]
- Andreas Alfons, Aurore Archimbaud & Vincent Drenth (2023) - robmedExtra: Extra Functionality for (Robust) Mediation Analysis - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2023) - ROBMED: SPSS R extension bundle for robust mediation analysis - doi: 10.25397/eur.19354268.v2 - [link]
- Matthias Templ, Alexander Kowarik, Bernhard Meindl & Andreas Alfons (2022) - simPop: Simulation of Complex Synthetic Data Information - [link]
- Matthias Templ, Alexander Kowarik, Andreas Alfons, Gregor de Cillia & Wolfgang Rannetbauer (2022) - VIM: Visualization and Imputation of Missing Values - [link]
- Savannah Boele, Natalie Terzikhan, Maarten Boksem, Wendy van de Sande, Silvan Licher & Andreas Alfons (27 October 2023) - CollectieveKracht takes home Open and Responsible Science award
- Andreas Alfons (7 December 2022) - ERIM Open Science Award 2022 Winner: Andreas Alfons
- Andreas Alfons & Antonio Schettino (18 January 2022) - An example of open software and innovative academic publication in econometrics
- Andreas Alfons (2025) - Joint Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) and Dutch/Flemish Classification Society (VOC) (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - Aurore Archimbaud (Host)
Activity: Hosting an academic visitor › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - International Conference on Robust Statistics and Data Science, Statistics & Visualisation (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - A machine learning approach for identifying the onset of careless responding in (online) surveys (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - Toulouse Business School (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Kathrin Gruber, Andreas Alfons, Achim Zeileis, Caroline Strobl & Florian Wickelmaier (2024) - International Workshop on Psychometric Computing (Organiser)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - Robust mediation analysis: From methodological advancements to easy and reproducible reporting (Speaker)
Activity: Oral presentation › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2024) - Journal of Data Science, Statistics and Visualisation (Journal) (Editor)
Activity: Editorial work › Academic - Julia Rose, Thomas Peeters & Andreas Alfons (2023) - Open science: What it means for economists (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2023) - Vienna University of Technology (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic
- Andreas Alfons (2022) - ERIM Open Science Award
- MFO (Max) Welz, A (Andreas) Alfons & K. (Kevin) ten Haaf (2021) - Open Mind Call 2021 Health and Technology
- A (Andreas) Alfons (2018) - NWO Vidi: Robust analysis of (big) rating-scale data in the social sciences
- Andreas Alfons (2017) - ESE Top Talent Researcher Award
Internship Hub
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB63017
Machine Learning in Econometrics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM21045
Thesis Hub Master Economics & Business
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM61007H
Machine Learning
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM31002
