Dr Morné MC Lamont

Lecturer

University of Stellenbosch

Private Bag X1, Matieland

7602, South Africa

Tel:         +(27) 21 808 3246 

Fax:        +(27) 21 808 3830

e-mail:     mmcl@sun.ac.za

Morné was born in George, South Africa on 15 May 1977. He attended Kretzenshope primary school in Blanco and George secondary school in Rosemore.

Employment History

2010 - present: Senior Lecturer - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Stellenbosch University

2003 - 2009: Lecturer - Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, Stellenbosch University

2007: Lecturer (part-time) - Science and Mathematics Post-Matric Programme at Stellenbosch  University (SciMathUS)

2000 - 2002: Junior Researcher in Biometry - Agricultural Research Council (South Africa)

1999: Marketing Information Analyst - HomeChoice (Pty) Ltd (Claremont, South Africa)

Tertiary Education

2008: PhD (Statistics) – Stellenbosch University, South Africa

Thesis: Assessing the influence of observations on the generalization performance of the kernel Fisher discriminant classifier

2002: M.Com (Statistics) - University of Stellenbosch

1998: B.Com.Hons (Statistics) - University of Stellenbosch, South Africa

1997: B.Com (cum laude) - University of the Western Cape, South Africa

Present Teaching Subjects

Statistical Methods 176

Statistics 318

Multivariate Methods in Statistics A & B (Honours)

Present Research Interests

Statistical learning theory; Multivariate Statistics; Data analysis with graphics as well as computer intensive methods

Publications in Journals

• Van der Merwe, J.A., Nielsen, M. and Lamont, M, “Effect of Semperfresh on the post-storage quality of Packham’s Triumph pears and Golden Delicious apples.”  South African Fruit Journal, Jun/Jul 2002, 47-52.

• N. Louw, M.M.C. Lamont and S.J. Steel, “Identification of influential cases in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, Communications in Statistics - Simulation and Computation, vol. 37, no. 10, 2008, pp.2050-2062.

Publications in conference proceedings

• N. Louw, M. Lamont, S.J. Steel, “Identification of Influential cases in Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis”, Complex Models and Computational Intensive Methods for Estimation and Prediction, 2007, pp. 296-301.

• N. Louw, M. Lamont, S.J. Steel, “Identification of Influential cases in Kernel Fisher Discriminant Analysis by using the Smallest Enclosing Hypersphere”, in Advances in Data Analysis, Data handling and Business Intelligence, Springer-Verlag, 2009, pp. 363-372.

Conferences (National)

• M.M.C. Lamont, N. Louw and S.J. Steel, “Outliers and influential observations in Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis and kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, Stellenbosch University, Colloquium: Statistics Department, October 15, 2004.

• M.M.C. Lamont, N. Louw and S.J. Steel, “Aspects of kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, Annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Grahamstown, Rhodes University, November 4, 2005.

• M.M.C. Lamont, N. Louw and S.J. Steel, “The effect of outliers on the performance of kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, Annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch University, November 1, 2006.

• N. Louw, S.J. Steel and M.M.C. Lamont, “Identification of influential cases in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, Annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Stellenbosch, Stellenbosch University, November 1, 2006.

• M.M.C. Lamont, “Assessing the influence of observations on the generalization performance of the kernel Fisher discriminant classifier”, PhD oral Examination, Stellenbosch University, August 11, 2008.

• M.M.C. Lamont, “Statistical applications of the smallest enclosing hypersphere”, Stellenbosch University, Colloquium: Statistics Department, August 29, and Vision and Learning group – Seminars: Applied Mathematics Department, November 7, 2008.

• S. Steel, N. Louw, S. Bierman and M. Lamont, “Dimension reduction, modern classification and regression methods”, Research Day, Economics and Management Sciences Faculty, Stellenbosch University, STIAS, October 24, 2011.

• M.M.C. Lamont, “The nearest hypersphere classifier”, Annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Pretoria, CSIR, November 1, 2011.

• N.S. Ntushelo, M.M.C. Lamont, and M. van der Rijst, “The analysis of a multidimensional binary dataset in R using the vegan package”, Annual conference of the South African Statistical Association, Pretoria, CSIR, November 3, 2011.

Conferences (International)

• N. Louw, S.J. Steel and M.M.C. Lamont, “Outlier identification in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, 26^th European Meeting of Statisticians, Toruń, Poland, July 24, 2006.

• N. Louw, S.J. Steel and M.M.C. Lamont, “Identification of influential cases in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, S.Co.2007, Venice, Italy, September 6-8, 2007.

• N. Louw, S.J. Steel and M.M.C. Lamont, “Identifying atypical cases in kernel Fisher discriminant analysis by using the smallest enclosing hypersphere”, German Classification Society 32^nd Annual Conference, Hamburg, Germany, July 16-18, 2008.

• N. Louw and M.M.C. Lamont, “Robust kernel Fisher discriminant analysis”, International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS), Parma, Italy, June 14-19, 2009.

   

Bursaries and Scholarships

1995: University of the Western Cape merit bursary.

1996/7: United Nation’s Educational and Training Program in Southern Africa (UNETPSA) bursary for B.Com study.

1997: UNETPSA scholarship for short course in Turin, Italy at the International Labour Organization Centre.

1997: Gaylord & Dorothy Donnelly Foundation, the Open Society Scholars Fund textbook Grant.

1998: Centre for Science Development (CSD) bursary for B.Com.Hons study.

2001: Postgraduate Development Programme bursary from the University of Stellenbosch for M.Com study.

2001/2: National Research Foundation (NRF) bursary for M.Com study.

Societies and Committees

Member of the South African Statistical Association.

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