François Bavaud

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François Bavaud is associate professor of quantitative methods at Lausanne University (Switzerland)

• within the section of Computer Science and Mathematical Methods (IMM) of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities
• within the Institute of Geography (IGUL) of the Faculty of Earth Sciences and Environment

• graduate studies in Physics and Mathematics at Fribourg University (1982)
• Ph.D. in Physics (Statistical Mechanics) at EPFL (Lausanne) (1986)
• lecturer in Applied Mathematics at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh (87-90)
• visiting scholar at the Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine (95)
• teacher of Statistics applied to Humanities (Psychology, Linguitics, Geography) at the Universities of Lausanne, Geneva and Fribourg (1990-)

• Spatial analysis (statistical methods in Geography; spatial autocorrelation and interaction; statistical analysis of flows; aggregation and spatial continuity)
• Data mining and Information Theory (Statistical methods for textual Data; Categorical dissimilarities; weighted and soft Clustering; high-dimensional Embeddings)

• Main publications (form the data base "Unisciences")
• A few on-line publications