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Latent Variable Methods for Engineering

Administrative Course outline Location and hours Course videos Copyright and other legal stuff Announcements The teaching part of the course for 2011 is complete. You can view all the class videos here. Thanks for all the valuable feedback on this course. I'm looking forward to teaching this course again soon.

Assignments, projects and datasets Assignments Assignment 1 Assignment 2 Assignment 3 Assignment 4 Project Course project All course datasets

Class materials, datasets and video Class Topic Slides 1 Course overview and introduction to latent variable methods Class 1 2, 3, 4 Principal component analysis (PCA) Class 2 , Class 3 , Class 4 4, 5 Application of PCA to process monitoring Class 2 , Class 4 , Class 5 6, 7 Projection to latent structures (PLS) 7, 8 Applications of latent variable methods: Soft sensors; Advanced preprocessing 9 Dealing with image data 10 Applications of latent variable methods: Classification 11 Dealing with batch data 12 Multiblock data analysis: dealing with data from multiple sources 13 New product development and reformulation 14 Course project presentations Recorded videos of all classes References and readings A freely available textbook for this course: Process Improvement using Data (ch 6)