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
   
  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