<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi, <br></div><div><br></div><div>This might be a little outside neuroimaging but promises to be rather interesting for those who are doing multivariate analyses (PLS/CCA/ ...)</div><div><br></div><div>Cheers</div><div>JB<br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">QLS Director</b> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:director.qls@mcgill.ca">director.qls@mcgill.ca</a>></span><br>Date: Mon, Apr 25, 2022 at 2:35 PM<br>Subject: May 3 seminar Prof. Hervé Abdi (U. Texas at Dallas) - Registration required - sponsored by QLS and the Ludmer Centre<br>To: QLS Supervisors <<a href="mailto:594-QLSSupervisors@campus.mcgill.ca">594-QLSSupervisors@campus.mcgill.ca</a>>, QLS All Students <<a href="mailto:QLSstudents@campus.mcgill.ca">QLSstudents@campus.mcgill.ca</a>><br>Cc: jbpoline <<a href="mailto:jbpoline@gmail.com">jbpoline@gmail.com</a>>, Louis Doré-Savard, Dr <<a href="mailto:louis.dore-savard@mcgill.ca">louis.dore-savard@mcgill.ca</a>>, QLS Coordinator <<a href="mailto:coordinator.qls@mcgill.ca">coordinator.qls@mcgill.ca</a>><br></div><br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">hi everyone – <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Hervé Abdi, University of Texas at Dallas, will be visiting Montreal in person on May 3<sup>rd
</sup>, and giving a seminar in the GrandPré auditorium at the Montreal Neurological Institute from 12pm – 1pm. Title and abstract are given below.
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<p class="MsoNormal">In person, there will be refreshments! The seminar will also be disseminated virtually – note that
<b><span style="color:red;background:yellow">Registration is required for both formats</span><span style="color:red">.
</span></b>Please forward this to anyone who might be interested.<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Prof Hervé Abdi, University of Texas at Dallas<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:11.25pt"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39364f;text-transform:uppercase;letter-spacing:.4pt">Seminar May 03, 2022, 12pm – 1pm,
</span></b><b><u><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39364f;letter-spacing:.4pt">Hybrid format</span></u></b><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#39364f;letter-spacing:.4pt"><u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:15.75pt"><b><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1e0a3c;letter-spacing:.4pt">Mega-Meta with covSTATIS: How to Perform Multivariate Factor Meta-Analysis<u></u><u></u></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mega-meta-with-covstatis-how-to-perform-multivariate-factor-meta-analysis-tickets-323307670947" target="_blank">https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/mega-meta-with-covstatis-how-to-perform-multivariate-factor-meta-analysis-tickets-323307670947</a><u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Traditional meta-analysis procedures were developed to integrate and evaluate multiple studies involving a small number of variables, but current scientific practices systematically involve multiple variables often analyzed by multivariate
factorial methods such as principal component analysis and its numerous variations. These methods typically generate maps that represent observations and variables as points or vectors in small dimensional spaces: a format that standard meta-analytic procedure
cannot easily handle. Here, in order to meta-analyze a set of multivariate studies using the same variables (and/or same observations) we propose to use a multi-table 3-way extension of metric multidimensional scaling (called diSTATIS or covSTATIS) that can
integrate the factorial information produced by a set of studies. covSTATIS produces two set of maps: The first set reveals the similarity between the studies and the second set optimally analyzes the common and specific information of the variables in the
studies. This approach is illustrated with a meta-analysis of a set of studies using the Survey of Autobiographical Memory (SAM)—a questionnaire that assesses self-reported remote mnemonic capacities comprising twenty-six variables organized in four subscales.<u></u><u></u></p>
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