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Final Programme
September 4th
| 17:00 - 20:00 | Registration and get together at Matforsk |
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 | Poster presenters are asked to bring their posters. |
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September 5th
| 07:45 | Bus from hotel to Matforsk |
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| 08:15 - 08:45 | Registration |
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| 08:45 – 09:00 | Harald Martens and Tormod Næs. Opening Ceremony |
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Session A:
Integrating different PLS cultures
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi - The PLS approach to data exploration and modeling: an everlasting matter of dispute or a playground for integrating different cultures? |
| 09:30 – 09:55 | Lars Munck, Lars Nørgaard, Birthe Møller - Mathematical models and data visualisation programs adapted to explore causality in the finely tuned reproducible spectra from biological networks. |
| 09:55 – 10:20 | Solve Sæbø, Achim Kohler, Tormod Næs, Harald Martens - A tool-box of methods for multi-matrix modelling. |
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| 10:20 – 10:35 | Coffee break |
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| 10:35 – 11:05 | Fred L. Bookstein - PLS for interdisciplinary biometrics:
representations and reinterpretations of the singular-value theorem |
| 11:05 – 11:30 | Inge S. Helland - PLS from model reduction under symmetry. |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Kim H. Esbensen, Marinda Swanepoel - PLS-discrimination reveals systematic sampling deficiences re. representative sampling at the winery weighbridge. |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Discussion |
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| 12:30 – 14:00 | Lunch / Poster Session |
Session B:
Applications in social sciences: sensometrics, consumer science, econometrics
Chairman Magni Martens
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Michel Tenenhaus - A bridge between PLS path modeling and ULS-SEM. |
| 14:30 – 14:55 | Gastón Sánchez, Tomás Aluja - A simulation study of PATHMOX (PLS path modeling
segmentation tree) sensitivity. |
| 14:55 – 15:20 | Valérie Lengard, Ingrid Måge, Martin Kermit - L-PLS regression for consumer preference analysis. |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Open talk |
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| 15:45 – 16:00 | Coffee break |
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| 16:00 – 16:25 | Alba Martínez Ruiz, Tomás Aluja Banet - Partial least squares path modeling in patent value analysis: a proposal. |
| 16:25 – 16:50 | Benedetto Torrisi, Giorgio Skonieczny, Sebastiano Piccolo - PLS to evaluate the effects of the technological innovation on the European regional wealth. |
| 16:50 – 17:15 | Antonio Jesús Caballero Domínguez, Gregoria Mateos-Aparicio Morales - PLS-Path modelling in the Spanish national health system. |
| 17:15 – 17:40 | Pedro Simões Coelho, Maria H. Almeida, Manuel J. Vilares - Sample Size Effect on the Comparison of Likelihood and Pls Estimators for Structural Equation Modeling: A Simulation With Customer Satisfaction Data. |
| 17:40 – 18:15 | Discussion |
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| 18:30 – 21:00 | Poster session / Buffet supper |
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| 21:15 | Bus from Matforsk to the hotel |
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September 6th
| 08:30 | Bus from hotel to Matforsk |
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Session C:
Causality in latent variables
Chairman Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Odd Aalen – Statistics, causality and dynamic path modelling, with applications to medicine. |
| 09:30 – 09:55 | Christian Derquenne - Free model for generalized path modelling. |
| 09:55 – 10:20 | Charlotte M. Andersen, Mikael A. Petersen, Rasmus Bro - Causal models of oxidation. |
| 10:20 – 10:50 | Carsten Stig Poulsen – Causality in marketing: Use and misuse. |
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 – 11:30 | Stig Omholt - The causality concept in a dappled world. |
| 11:30 – 11:55 | Christian M. Ringle, Bradley Wilson, William Callaghan, Jörg Henseler - Exploring causal path directionality for a marketing model using Cohen’s path methods. |
| 11:55 – 12:30 | Discussion |
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| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
Session D:
Applications in natural science: chemometrics / functional genomics
Chairman Fred Bookstein
| 13:30 – 14:00 | Anne-Laure Boulesteix, Christine Porzelius, Martin Daumer - Microarray-based prediction with emphasis on clinical parameters: A PLS approach. |
| 14:00 – 14:25 | Lars Nørgaard, Florent Baty, Martin Schumacher, Rasmus Bro - Extended canonical variates analysis compared to selected multivariate classification methods on two different types of data structures – spectroscopic and microarray data. |
| 14:25 – 14:50 | Ellen Mosleth Færgestad, Kristian Hovde Liland, Harald Martens, Rasmus Bro, Frans van den Berg, - The use of n-way data compression approaches for
exploring causality in functional genomics. |
| 14:50 – 15:15 | Tomas Öberg, Tao Liu - Global and local PLS regression models to predict vapor pressur. |
| 15:15 – 15:35 | Discussion |
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| 15:35 – 15:50 | Coffee break |
Session E:
Multiblock, multi-way and path models
Chairman Anne-Laure Boulesteix
| 15:50 – 16:20 | Age Smilde, Daniel Vis - Causality and Emergence in Biological Systems. |
| 16:20 – 16:45 | Christian M. Ringle, Rainer Schlittgen, - A genetic algorithm segmentation approach for uncovering and separating groups of data in PLS path modeling. |
| 16:45 – 17:10 | Laura Trinchera, Silvia Squillacciotti, Vincenzo Esposito Vinzi, Michel Tenenhaus - PLS path modeling in presence of a group structure: REBUS- PLS, a new esponse-based approach. |
| 17:10 – 17:25 | Discussion |

| 17:30 | Bus from Matforsk to hotel |
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| 19:00 | Bus from hotel to Gamle Logen, Oslo |
| 19:30 | Conference dinner at Gamle Logen, Oslo |

| 24:00 | Bus from Gamle Logen, Oslo, to hotel |
September 7th
| 08:30 | Bus from hotel to Matforsk |
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Session F:
New developments in PLS methodology
Chairman Inge Helland
| 09:00 – 09:30 | Harald Martens, Svante Wold - PLS tools for exploring causalities. |
| 09:30 – 09:55 | Jörg Henseler - On the convergence of partial least squares path modeling. |
| 09:55 – 10:20 | Aurea Grané, Josep Fortiana - A functional PLS algorithm, with application to goodness-of-fit tests. |
| 10:20 – 10:45 | Bjørn-Helge Mevik, Kjetil Jørgensen, Ingrid Måge, Tormod Næs - LS-PLS: A regression method combining design and spectral data as predictors. |
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| 10:45 – 11:00 | Coffee break |
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| 11:00 – 11:25 | Mohamed Hanafi, Achim Kohler - Equivalence of hierarchical principal component analysis and common components and specific weights analysis and their relations to INDSCAL model. |
| 11:25 – 11:45 | Ulf Indahl, Kristian H. Liland - Powered partial least squares discriminant analysis. |
| 11:45 – 12:10 | Huiwen Wang, Jie Meng - Nonlinear structure analysis with partial least squares regression based on spline transformation. |
| 12:10 - 12:40 | Discussion and summary of the symposium |
| 12:40 - 12:50 | Invitation to next PLS symposium in China (PLS´09). |
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| 12:50 – 14:00 | Lunch |
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| 14:00 | Bus from Matforsk to Gardermoen Airport, Oslo |
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