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Latent Variable Methods for Engineering: CHE 765

Administrative Course outline Location and hours Course videos (last update: 07 October) Copyright and other legal stuff Announcements All course videos are at the link (see above this line) Please read this PLS tutorial before the next class as a recap of PLS. The next class continues with PLS and also looks at soft sensors. Read this paper for background before next class. Please note that from this Friday onwards, I will start classes at 15:00 (except for 1 class that starts at 16:00).

Class materials 1: Course overview and introduction to latent variable methods 2,3,4: Principal component analysis (PCA) 4,5: Application of PCA to process monitoring 6: Projection to latent structures (PLS) 7,8,9 Applications of latent variable methods 10 Dealing with 3D data: batch and image data 11 Multiblock data analysis: dealing with data from multiple sources 12 Optimization and new product development 13 Course project presentations Review of basic statistical concepts References and readings

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

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