-------- Original Message -------- Subject: FW: Course on PLS (Partial Least Squares) Path Modelling (Paris, 12-13 May 2009) Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 11:04:47 -0800 (PST) From: F. James Rohlf <[email protected]> Reply-To: <[email protected]> Organization: Stony Brook University To: <[email protected]> The meeting announcement given below may be of interest to some on the morphmet list. It covers more general applications of the PLS approach. ========================= F. James Rohlf Distinguished Professor, Stony Brook University http://life.bio.sunysb.edu/ee/rohlf ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *From:* Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi [mailto:[email protected]] *Sent:* Saturday, February 07, 2009 2:49 PM *To:* [email protected] *Subject:* Course on PLS (Partial Least Squares) Path Modelling (Paris, 12-13 May 2009) *Course on PLS Path Modelling: Foundations and Applications 12-13 May 2009 *Paris, France http://www.xlstat.com/en/services/training/ /_Overview _/The first presentations of the PLS (Partial Least Squares) approach to path models with latent variables were published by Herman Wold in the late Sixties, with further works on the algorithm published in the following decade. Then, Wold's work was continued by J.-B. Lohmöller (1989) who formalized the method from the mathematical point of view before developing the LVPLS software where the PLS algorithm was enriched by a few validation procedures. After Lohmöller's contribution, the method was somehow forgotten, and it is only since a decade that it has been rediscovered by Wynne W. Chin in the domain of the Management of Information Systems and then by Michel Tenenhaus and Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi in the domain of Statistics, and further developed thanks to the efforts of several researchers from diverse disciplines at both the methodological and the application level. The PLS approach is a powerful data exploration tool, as soon as you are in a case where you can define concepts that cannot be directly measured (the latent variables) and are interconnected (one can draw a causal path), but that can be related to measured variables (the manifest variables). This method is often considered as the component-based alternative to the classical covariance-based SEM methods (Structural Equation Modeling), and a powerful substitute in the cases where classical SEM cannot be used or shows practical and theoretical limitations. But the PLS approach is also a very general and flexible framework for the analysis of relationships between two or multiple blocks of variables. This 2-day course will deal with the methodological foundations of the PLS approach while presenting and discussing several validation and intepretation tools with a specific focus on applications (using the XLSTAT-PLSPM software) in different domains. The detailed agenda (with further information on registration and contact details) is available at: http://www.xlstat.com/en/services/training/ /_About the Instructors _/*Wynne W. CHIN* is the C.T. Bauer Professor of MIS in the department of Decision and Information Sciences in the C.T. Bauer College of Business at the University of Houston. He received his A.B. in Biophysics from U.C. Berkeley, MS in Biomedical/Chemical Engineering from Northwestern University, and an MBA and Ph.D. in Computers and Information Systems from the University of Michigan. Wynne has also taught previously at the University of Calgary, Wayne State University, and the University of Michigan and has been a visiting fellow at the University of Canterbury, Queens University, City University of Hong Kong, and the University of New South Wales. Wynne's research includes sales force automation, IT adoption, outsourcing, acceptance, satisfaction, group cohesion and negotiation, and psychometric modeling issues. Wynne is on the editorial board of Structural Equation Modeling journal, Journal of AIS, Journal of Information Technology, IEEE Transaction of Management, and previously co-editor of Data Base and on the boards of Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly. He is also the developer of PLS-Graph, the first graphical based software dating back to 1990 to perform Partial Least Squares analysis. *Vincenzo ESPOSITO VINZI *is Professor of Statistics at ESSEC Business School - Paris and Singapore. He received a Ph.D. in Computational Statistics. Vincenzo is a Vice President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics and the current scientific secretary of the International Federation of Classification Societies after being the Scientific Secretary of the European Board of Directors of the International Association for Statistical Computing. His research includes multivariate statistics, factorial methods, structural equation modelling, PLS regression and path modelling, multiple table analysis, with business and industry oriented applications. Vincenzo has delivered invited lectures, taught tutorials and organised specialised sessions on PLS and related methods to several international conferences and PhD programs around the world. He has been chairing, with Michel Tenenhaus, a series of International Conferences on PLS and related methods and has co-edited several conference proceedings and special issues of international journals on PLS methods. Vincenzo is an Associate Editor of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Elsevier) and Computational Statistics (Physica-Verlag). He is the managing editor of the forthcoming "Handbook of Partial Least Squares: Concepts, Methods and Applications" by Springer. *Michel TENENHAUS* is Professor of Statistics at HEC School of Management - Paris. His main researches are concerned with multivariate data analysis: optimal scaling methods for categorical variables, PLS regression and PLS path modelling. He has published many papers in scientific journals and three books: Méthodes Statistiques en Gestion (Dunod, 1994), La régression PLS : théorie et applications (Technip, 1998) and Statistique: Méthodes pour décrire, expliquer et prévoir (Dunod, 2007). Michel Tenenhaus is also consultant for industrial companies. He has been chairman of PLS'99 at Jouy-en-Josas and co-chairman of the following symposia PLS'01 at Anacapri, PLS'03 at Lisbon, and PLS'05 at Barcelona. -- Replies will be sent to the list. For more information visit http://www.morphometrics.org
