Biography
Andreas Alfons is an Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, ÌÇÐÄÖ±²¥. 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
- Max Welz, Carlijn van der Aalst, Andreas Alfons, Andrea Naghi, Marjolein A. Heuvelmans, Harry J.M. Groen, Pim A. de Jong, Joachim Aerts, Matthijs Oudkerk, Harry de Koning & Kevin ten Haaf (2025) - - Nature Communications, 16 (1), 8060 - doi:
- Andreas Alfons & Aurore Archimbaud (2025) - -
- Max Welz, Andreas Alfons & Patrick Mair (2025) - - doi:
- Max Welz, Andreas Alfons & Kevin ten Haaf (2025) - -
- Pia Pfeiffer, Andreas Alfons & Peter Filzmoser (2025) - - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 207 - doi: -
- Andreas Alfons (2024) - -
- Andreas Alfons & Aurore Archimbaud (2024) - -
- Andreas Alfons (2024) - -
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- Andreas Alfons & Max Welz (2024) - - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18 (2) - doi: -
- Savannah Boele, Natalie Terzikhan, Maarten Boksem, Wendy van de Sande, Silvan Licher & Andreas Alfons (27 oktober 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 januari 2022) - An example of open software and innovative academic publication in econometrics
- Andreas Alfons (2025) - Clusterpath Gaussian Graphical Modeling (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Toulouse School of Economics (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Sparse clusterpath Gaussian graphical modeling and covariance matrix estimation (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Joint Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) and Dutch/Flemish Classification Society (VOC) (Member of programme committee)
Activiteit: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Aurore Archimbaud (Host)
Activiteit: Hosting an academic visitor › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Society for the Improvement of Psychological Science Meeting (Participant)
Activiteit: Attending an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Toulouse Business School (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Max Welz (Host)
Activiteit: Hosting an academic visitor › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - University of Zurich (Visiting researcher)
Activiteit: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Robust estimation of structural equation models (Speaker)
Activiteit: Invited talk › 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
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEB63017
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEM61007H
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEM21039
- Year
- 2025
- Course Code
- FEM21046
