Professor Dr. Andreas Alfons

Biography

Andreas Alfons is an Associate Professor at the Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. His research lies at the intersection of statistics, machine learning, and psychometrics, with a strong emphasis on data-driven regularization techniques and methods robust to outliers and deviations from model assumptions. He is an author and maintainer of software packages for the open-source statistical computing environment R and advocates for open and responsible science. Currently, he leads the NWO Vidi project titled 'Robust Analysis of (Big) Rating-Scale Data in the Social Sciences' and is involved in the interdisciplinary sector plan project 'The Influence of Digitalization on Work, Prosperity, and Entrepreneurship,' where he leads the theme 'Digital Decision Support.' Additionally, he is part of the editorial team for the Journal of Statistical Software and the Journal of Data Science, Statistics, and Visualization.

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