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Latent Variable Methods for Engineering: CHE 765

Administrative Course outline Location and hours Course videos (last update: 2 December 2011) Copyright and other legal stuff Announcements The teaching part of the course for 2011 is complete. You can view all the class videos here. ProSensus is upgrading their website and is looking for testimonials regarding ProMV. If you would like to submit your comments (negative feedback is also welcome) please send them to Emily Nichols. Please indicate whether you would like your name to be displayed with your comments; if not ProSensus will simply post “Graduate student, McMaster University”.

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 Applications of latent variable methods 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 (last update: 2 December ) References and readings

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

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