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Dear all, the III International School on Classification and Data Analysis, on

*ROBUST STATISTICS: FOUNDATIONS and RECENT DEVELOPMENTS*

will take place on the enchanting shores of Lake Como, Italy, on May 4-8, 2020. It is intended for Ph.D. Students, M.S. Students, Post-Docs, Young and Junior researchers.

Robust statistics is at the forefront of statistical research, and a central topic in multidisciplinary science where mathematical ideas are used to model and understand the real world, without being affected by contamination that could occur in the data.

Nowadays, with the increasing availability of Big data, robust statistical methods are crucially needed.

The aim of this course is three-fold: present novel models to describe real-world phenomena, and their properties; study their behavior under different kinds of contamination; discuss their implementation through computational methods.

The lecturers are amongst the most influential scholars in the field:

Anthony Atkinson https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anthony_Atkinson3, London School of Economics, UK Agustin Mayo-Iscar https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Agustin_Mayo, University of Valladolid, ES Marco Riani https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco_Riani, University of Parma, IT Anna Maria Paganoni https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna_Paganoni, Politecnico di Milano, IT The school is organized by the Classification and Data Analysis Group of the Italian Statistical Society http://cladag.it/, under the auspices of the European Regional Section https://iasc-isi.org/ers-mission/ (ERS) of the International Association for Statistical Computing https://iasc-isi.org/ (IASC).

Please note that the conference room allows only for a very limited number of participants (no more than 30). The registration deadline is March 4th 2020. For more information, visit the School website: https://rsfd.lakecomoschool.org/