Browsing Theses by Subject "mixture models"
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Design and Analysis of Life History Studies Involving Incomplete Data
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-26)Incomplete life history data can arise in study designs, coarsened observations, missing covariates, and unobserved latent processes. This thesis consists of three different projects developing statistical models and ... -
Mixture Regression for Sea Ice Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2022-12-23)The classification of sea ice in SAR imagery is complicated by statistical nonstationarity. Incidence angle effects, heterogeneous ice conditions and other confounding variables contribute to spatial and temporal variability ... -
A PAC-Theory of Clustering with Advice
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)In the absence of domain knowledge, clustering is usually an under-specified task. For any clustering application, one can choose among a variety of different clustering algorithms, along with different preprocessing ... -
Structured Mixture Models
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-11)Finite mixture models are a staple of model-based clustering approaches for distinguishing subgroups. A common mixture model is the finite Gaussian mixture model, whose degrees of freedom scales quadratically with increasing ...