Browsing Theses by Author "Xin, Lu"
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Generalizations and Applications of the Stochastic Block Model to Basketball Games and Variable Selection Problems
Xin, Lu (University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of network data in a vast number of circumstances, such as the World Wide Web, social networks, gene interactions, economic networks, etc. Scientific analysis of networks ... -
Stochastic Stepwise Ensembles for Variable Selection
Xin, Lu (University of Waterloo, 2009-04-30)Ensembles methods such as AdaBoost, Bagging and Random Forest have attracted much attention in the statistical learning community in the last 15 years. Zhu and Chipman (2006) proposed the idea of using ensembles for variable ...