Biography
Andreas Alfons is an Associate Professor at Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam. 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, Andreas Alfons & Patrick Mair (2025) - robcat: Robust Categorical Data Analysis - doi: 10.32614/CRAN.package.robcat
- Max Welz, Andreas Alfons & Kevin ten Haaf (2025) - predmod: A Package for Evaluating Heterogenous Treatment Effects through Different Methodologies - [link]
- Pia Pfeiffer, Andreas Alfons & Peter Filzmoser (2025) - Efficient computation of sparse and robust maximum association estimators - Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, 207 - doi: 10.1016/j.csda.2025.108133
- Andreas Alfons & Aurore Archimbaud (2024) - rdmc: Robust Discrete Matrix Completion - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2024) - robmed: (Robust) Mediation Analysis - [link]
- Andreas Alfons & Aurore Archimbaud (2024) - robmedExtra: Extra Functionality for (Robust) Mediation Analysis - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2024) - ccaPP: (Robust) Canonical Correlation Analysis via Projection Pursuit - [link]
- Andreas Alfons (2024) - robustHD: Robust Methods for High-Dimensional Data - [link]
- Andreas Alfons & Max Welz (2024) - Open Science Perspectives on Machine Learning for the Identification of Careless Responding: A New Hope or Phantom Menace? - Social and Personality Psychology Compass, 18 (2) - doi: 10.1111/spc3.12941 - [link]
- Andreas Alfons, Josef Holzer & Matthias Templ (2024) - laeken: Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty - [link]
- Savannah Boele, Natalie Terzikhan, Maarten Boksem, Wendy van de Sande, Silvan Licher & Andreas Alfons (27 October 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 January 2022) - An example of open software and innovative academic publication in econometrics
- Andreas Alfons (2025) - Joint Meeting Classification and Data Analysis Group (CLADAG) and Dutch/Flemish Classification Society (VOC) (Member of programme committee)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Toulouse Business School (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - University of Zurich (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external academic institution › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Robust estimation of structural equation models (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - International Conference on Robust Statistics (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Invariant Coordinate Selection and Related Methods Conference (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Tandem clustering with invariant coordinate selection (Speaker)
Activity: Invited talk › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - Innovative Tools for Robust Statistics and Optimal Experiment Design (Examiner)
Activity: Examination › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - 1st Annual SSH-Breed Sectorplan Conference 'The Influence of Digitalisation on Work, Prosperity and Entrepreneurship' (Participant)
Activity: Organising and contributing to an event › Academic - Andreas Alfons (2025) - International Workshop on Psychometric Computing (Participant)
Activity: Attending an event › 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
Thesis Hub Master Economics & Business
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM61007H
Machine Learning
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM31002
Internship Hub
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEB63017
Machine Learning in Econometrics
- Year
- 2024
- Course Code
- FEM21045
