Research Groups

Research Group: Data Analytics

Group Coordinator: Paula Vicente

Assistant Professor with Habilitation at the Department of Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics of ISCTE- Instituto Universitário de Lisboa

                                         Office: AA1.06
                                         Telephone: 217903285; 711061

                                         E-mail: paula.vicente@iscte-iul.pt

Data Analytics group main areas of research: 

• Data Analysis 
• Multivariate Statistics 
• Statistical Modelling 
• Survey Methods 

The Data Analytics group carries out research in collection and analysis of statistical data, developing and applying state of the art methodologies. The focus is on regular interdisciplinary collaboration with researchers from other BRU-IUL groups and from other research centres. Partnerships with companies and organisations often take place. 

Main achievements 2013-2017: 

i) A new multicollinearity diagnostic measure (the CVIF) that is now included in the MCTEST (2016) R package. 

ii) Management of the whole auditing sampling process in the SIPTA project (Portuguese Auditing software).

iii) A dynamic stochastic model for the optimal timing of a treatment switch for use on patients with uncertain medical outcomes. 

iv) Contribution to the methodology of mobile market surveys, by introducing efficient contact strategies to increase response rate. This topic is quite novel and little research has been done on it. 

v) Partnering with healthcare institutions (Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa and Ministry of Health) for the development and subsequent implementation of a patient classification system in hospitals, healthcare units and nursing homes, for more efficient financing purposes. 

vi) Involvement in the aQeduto project: evaluation, quality and equity in education - a joint initiative of the National Education Council and Francisco Manuel dos Santos Foundation. This project contributed to public debate in the field of education regarding the factors responsible for the positive results Portugal has achieved in PISA (Program for International Student Assessment) over the last fifteen years. 

vii) Organization of 23rd Congress of the Portuguese Statistical Society - SPE 2017.

• Integrated Member
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  Abdul Kadir Suleman

  abdul.suleman@iscte-iul.pt

  Associate Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests:

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  Ana Maria Portela Nunes de Sousa Ferreira

  ana.ferreira@dgeec.mec.pt

  Assistant Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests: Researcher in Multivariate Data Analysis, namely Discriminant Analysis, Factor Analysis, Cluster Analysis and Symbolic Analysis. , Her main area of interest is Supervised Classification on Qualitative Variables, in particularly focused on the case of small samples and poorly separated classes. , More recently, her research is focused on explore the evaluation of Supervised Classification results, comparing several measures as, Cohen's Kappa statistic, Huberty index or others.

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  Catarina Maria Valente Antunes Marques

  Catarina.Marques@iscte-iul.pt

  Assistant Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests: Structural Equation Modelling, PLS-PM, Segmentation Techniques, Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis, Longitudinal data analysis, Tourism Marketing

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  Elisabeth de Azevedo Reis

  ear@iscte-iul.pt

  Full Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests: Multivariate Statistics, Marketing Research, Surveys and Sampling Methods, Segmentation statistical methods

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  Felipa Dias de Mello Sampayo

  filipa.sampayo@iscte-iul.pt

  Assistant Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests: Microeconomics under uncertainty, Microeconometrics, Spatial Economics, Health Economics

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  José Manuel Gonçalves Dias

  jose.dias@iscte-iul.pt

  Associate Professor with "Agregação"

  Research and Teaching Interests: Modelação estatística e econométrica

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  José Joaquim Dias Curto

  dias.curto@iscte-iul.pt

  Associate Professor with "Agregação"

  Research and Teaching Interests: Econometrics, Statistics, Quantitative Methods for Management and Economics

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  Maria de Fátima Ramalho Fernandes Salgueiro

  fatima.salgueiro@iscte-iul.pt

  Associate Professor with "Agregação"

  Research and Teaching Interests: Statistical Modelling and Data Analysis: theoretical contributions and applications, Structural Equation Models, Graphical Models, Latent Growth Curve Models, Longitudinal data analysis

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  Maria Margarida Guerreiro Martins dos Santos Cardoso

  margarida.cardoso@iscte-iul.pt

  Associate Professor with "Agregação"

  Research and Teaching Interests: Data Analysis using Multivariate Statistics and Data Mining is the general area of research

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  Maria Margarida Serra Marques Martins de Moura Saraiva

  msaraiva@uevora.pt

  Assistant Professor

  Research and Teaching Interests: Organization and Management Science; Quality Management; Quality Systems; Quality and Innovation; Creativity in Management