[Statlist] WG: WG: ECAS-2007 on SEM : second announcement

[Caterina Savi]

Second course announcement and call for application for the
course on

STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELS (SEM)

GRENOBLE (FRANCE), 24-28 SEPTEMBER 2007

11-th ed. of the European Courses in Advanced Statistics (ECAS)

The deadline for application has been delayed to 

JULY 15

For more information on this summer school, see

http://web.upmf-grenoble.fr/labsad/pages/ecas2007

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The ECAS 2007 session will give a general overview of the  
methodological and theoretical aspects of SEM, in the case of  
numerical variables (normal distribution or else)  as well as  
categorical and ordinal cases.
Most recent developments will be considered, and the PLS approach  
will receive attention, for models integrating formative as well as  
reflective constructs.

The audience of this ECAS Session are PhD students, substantive  
researchers, and methodologists in Marketing, in the economics, the  
social and the behavioral sciences, as well as biometricians and  
statisticians with interests in structural equation modeling.

It is assumed that the participants benefit of a good background in  
statistics up to and including multivariate analysis, and have been  
exposed to matrix algebra. Participants will learn modeling real data  
- eventually on their own WIFI compatible laptop -  but no previous  
acquaintance with one of the currently available software packages in  
Structural Equation Modeling is required.

Lecturers:
*  K. Bollen, Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA
*  I. Moustaki, Athenes Univ. of Economics and Business, Greece
*  J. Arbuckle, Temple Univ. , USA
*  M. Tenenhaus, HEC Business School, Jouy-en-Josas, France
*  P. Valette-Florence, IAE, Univ. Grenoble 2, France
*  V. E. Vinzi, ESSEC Business School, Paris, France.

Important dates :
The new deadline for application  : July 15, 2007.

Scientific committee:
* G. d'Aubigny, Univ. Grenoble 2, France
* D. Bartholomew, LSE, London, U.K.
* J. De Leeuw, UCLA, USA
* C. Derquenne, EDF R&D, Clamart, France
* K. Jöreskog, Uppsala Univ. , Sweden
* H. Nyquist, Stockholms Univ., Sweden
* G. Saporta, CNAM, Paris, France.

Organizing Committee
-- C. d'Aubigny, Univ. Grenoble 2, France
-- G. d'Aubigny, Univ. Grenoble 2, France
-- P. Garat, Univ. Grenoble 2, France
-- A. Latour, Univ. Grenoble 2, France and UQAM, Canada
-- C. Letellier (secr\'etariat), Univ. Grenoble 2, France

Language:
All lectures will be given in English; work material will also be in  
English.

Looking forward for reading your application by mail and meeting you  
in Aussois,

On behalf of the organizing and local scientific committee,

Prof. G. d'Aubigny     Tel : (+33) 04 76 82 54 16
Department of Statistics, Team MS3/LJK
Université Pierre Mendès-France
BSHM, 1251 av. centrale BP 47
38040 Grenoble Cedex 09   
ECAS.LabSAD at upmf-grenoble.fr