Keynote presentation in variable clustering.

Gilbert SAPORTA* is emeritus professor of applied statistics  at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers, in Paris. He is a well-known French statistician whose main contributions focus on the:

• analysis of qualitative data and mixtures of qualitative and quantitative data using optimal quantification
• study of functional data
• study of the validity of data analysis results
• sparsification of multivariate methods such as correspondence analysis

Gilbert has more than 300 publications amongst articles, chapters, and books. For a list of his publications click here. 

Some of his most well-known books are: