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| 9.30 | Bus Departure to the Lake Bled and the Vintgar Gorge |
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| 15.00 - 17.00 | Meeting of the IRMCS Group |
| 18.00 - 19.00 | Registration in Castle Hrib |
| 8.00 -- 9.00 | Registration in Castle Hrib | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 9.15 | Opening of the Conference | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 9.30 | INVITED ADDRESS Chair: A. Ferligoj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Fitting Feature Graphs to Proximity Data
Willem J. Heiser 10.30 |
BREAK | 11.00 |
Network Analysis Chair: W.J. Heiser
| • | Reducing the Number of Measuring Points in an Observation Well Network
| Gerhard Neubauer and Klemens Fuchs • | Acyclic Blockmodels with Symmetric Positions
| Patrick Doreian, Vladimir Batagelj, and Anuška Ferligoj • | Clustering in Large Networks
| Vladimir Batagelj and Matjaž Zaveršnik • | Analysis and Visualization of Genealogies Using Program Package Pajek
| Andrej Mrvar and Vladimir Batagelj 13.00 |
LUNCH | 14.30 |
Data Analysis
Chair: M. Hussain
| • | Beyond the Metric Index of Dissimilarities Between Binary Vectors
| Matevž Bren and Vladimir Batagelj • | Clustering Large Datasets of Mixed Units
| Simona Korenjak-Černe and Vladimir Batagelj • | Segmentation of Retail Bank Market
| Igor Horvat, Jože Rovan, and Anuška Ferligoj • | The Use of Correspondence Analysis of Concatenated Tables in First
Exploration of Data
| Nino Rode 16.30 |
BREAK | 17.00 |
Statistics in Economics
Chair: J. Rovan
| • | Teaching Economic Statistics in a Digital Environment
| Lea Bregar and Irena Ograjenšek • | Testing Nonlinear Relationships Between Excess Rate
of Return on Equity and Financial Ratios
| Dušan Mramor and Marko Pahor • | Statistical Quality Control in Quality Management Systems of
Slovene Companies
| Irena Ograjenšek 19.00 |
WELCOME RECEPTION
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Offered by Tomaž Banovec,
Director of the Statistical Office of
the Republic of Slovenia
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| 9.00 | INVITED ADDRESS Chair: A. Ferligoj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Event History Analysis of Interviewer and Respondent Survey Behavior
James M. Lepkowski, Justin Fisher, and Robert F. Belli 10.00 |
Methodology I.
Chair: J. M. Lepkowski
| • | Technology Effects: Why takes a CAPI Interview Longer?
Interviewer and Respondent Behavior in a CAPI and a PAPI Version of a
Survey
| Marek Fuchs • | Respondents' Satisfaction in WWW Surveys
| Zenel Batagelj, Katja Lozar, and Vasja Vehovar 11.00 |
BREAK | 11.30 |
Methodology II.
Chair: J.M. Batista-Foguet
| • | Computer Assisted Focus Group Interviews
| Vanja Buvac • | An MTMM-Approach to the Study of Values in Surveys
| Hans Waege, Jaak Billiet, and Stefaan Pleysier • | The Assessment and Testing of Psychological Constructs,
Using Incomplete Data Patterns, Within an MTMM Approach
| Brendan Bunting and Christine O'Loughlin 13.00 |
LUNCH | 14.30 |
Methodology III.
Chair: B. Bunting
| • | Attitude Strength and Response Stability of a Quasi Balanced
Political Alienation Scale
| Jaak Billiet, Marc Swyngedouw, and Hans Waege • | Systematic Identification of Badly Worded Survey Questions
| Tina Kogovšek • | A Procedure for Estimating the Parameters of the Preference Response
Model: OPTIMUM
| Jànos Màth and Àkos Münnich • | Studying Social Norms in Small Groups: A Perfect Setting
for Applying Advanced Concordance Analysis
| Gaj Vidmar and Matej Černigoj 16.30 |
BREAK | 17.00 |
Reliability and Validity
Chair: J. Billiet
| • | Assessment of Reliability when Test Items are not Essentially
Tau-Equivalent
| Gregor Sočan • | The Effect of Respondent's Mood on the Reliability of Network
Measurements
| Valentina Hlebec and Anuška Ferligoj • | Analyzing Content Validity in Program Evaluation from Generalizability
Theory
| Salvador Chacón Moscoso, José Antonio Pérez-Gil, and José López Ruiz • | The Binomy of Exploratory Factor Analysis --
Confirmatory Factor Analysis in Construct Validity of Program Evaluation
| José Antonio Pérez-Gil and Salvador Chacón Moscoso |
| 9.00 | INVITED ADDRESS Chair: A. Ferligoj | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Inference in the Proportional Hazards Model
John O'Quigley 10.00 |
Statistics I.
Chair: J. O'Quigley
| • | Behaviour of the Buckley and James Estimator under Misspecified Model
| Janez Stare and Harald Heinzl • | Collinearity, Heteroscedasticity and Outlier Diagnostics in Regression.
Do They Always Offer What They Claim?
| Germà Coenders and Marc Saez 11.00 |
BREAK | 11.30 |
Statistics II.
Chair: H. Friedl
| • | Bayesian Sensitivity Analysis Algorithms for Discrete Variables with Symmetric and
Asymmetric Uncertainties
| Dario Cziraky • | Some Notes on Evaluating the Prediction Error for the
Generalized Estimating Equations
| Dario Gregori • | Semi--Markov Models with an Application to Power--Plant Reliability
Analysis
| Mihael Perman, Andrej Senegačnik, and Matija Tuma 13.00 |
LUNCH | 14.30 |
Biostatistics
Chair: J. Stare
| • | Optimal Allocation for Composite Sample Design - Univariate
Approach
| Polona Kalan and Katarina Košmelj • | Quality Assessment of the Statistical Land Cover/Use GIS of
Slovenia-State'97
| D. Šabić, E. H. Lojović, and A. Tretjak • | The Effects of Measurement Errors in Diagnosing High Blood Pressure
and in Analysing the Relationship Between Blood Pressure and
Characteristic Variables of the Patients
| Joan M. Batista-Foguet, Germà Coenders, and M. Artès Ferragut • | Finding Information in Electrophysiological Data
| Andrej Blejec 16.30 |
BREAK | 17.00 |
Applications of Statistical Models
Chair: K. Košmelj
| • | Evaluating Vehicle Interior Noise Quality with Statistical Models
| Mushtaq Hussain, Herwig Friedl, and Hermann Katz • | Dependence Models for Extremes of Dispersed Contaminants
| S. Nadarajah • | Quantification of Environmental Decisions within the Context of Conjoint
Analysis
| Lidija Zadnik Stirn and Leonarda Godler 18.30 |
Closing
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