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Latent Variable Methods for Engineering: CHE 765

Administrative Course outline Location and hours Course videos (last update: 14 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 and this trade publication (link updated) 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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