Advances in multidimensional unfolding
Busing, F.M.T.A.
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Busing, F. M. T. A. (2010, April 21). Advances in multidimensional unfolding. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/1887/15279
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curriculum vitae
Frank Busing was born on December 28, 1963 in Amsterdam as Franciscus (af- ter his uncle) Martinus (after his father’s father) Theodorus (after his mother’s father) Antonius (after his father) Busing. In 1983 he graduated from the Fioretti College in Lisse (vwo-a). Before receiving his master’s degree (1993) in Psychology, Frank studied Law, as well as Child and Education Studies (pro- pedeuse 1987), all at Leiden University. In 2000 he received his qualification to teach at primary schools from the Hogeschool ipabo in Amsterdam.
During his studies, Frank was employed by Leiden University as research assistant and by levob Assurance Company in Amersfoort as researcher and programmer. From 1993 on, he works for Leiden University as researcher and statistical programmer. His research topics are estimation and resampling pro- cedures in multilevel analysis and multidimensional scaling. During this pe- riod, Frank developed computer programs for ‘automatiseren t/m 20’ (auto), multilevel analysis (mla), multidimensional scaling (ibm spss proxscal), and multidimensional unfolding (ibm spss prefscal). From 2000 to 2007, Frank was a part time teacher at the primary school Oostelijke Eilanden in Amsterdam.
Frank is co-author of publications on resampling in multilevel analysis, multidimensional scaling, and multidimensional unfolding. Currently, Frank is employed as researcher and teacher to the Section for Psychometrics and Re- search Methodology, Institute of Psychology, Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Leiden University.
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