Browsing Theses by Subject "Ordinal Regression"
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Development of Wastewater Collection Network Asset Database, Deterioration Models and Management Framework
(University of Waterloo, 2010-07-06)The dynamics around managing urban infrastructure are changing dramatically. Today’s infrastructure management challenges – in the wake of shrinking coffers and stricter stakeholders’ requirements – include finding better ... -
Effective and Efficient Optimization Methods for Kernel Based Classification Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-22)Kernel methods are a popular choice in solving a number of problems in statistical machine learning. In this thesis, we propose new methods for two important kernel based classification problems: 1) learning from highly ... -
L1-Penalized Ordinal Regression and Bayesian Variable Selection for Linear Models with Multiple Responses
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-20)Polychotomous ordinal response data are often analyzed by first introduce a latent continuous variable which can be modeled as an ordinary regression problem with the presence of covariates by using Markov chain Monte Carlo ...