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A Statistical Assessment of a Process To Evaluate the Commercial Success Of Inventions
(University of Waterloo, 2001)In over twenty years of operations the Canadian Innovation Centre has evaluated, through its Inventor's Assistance Program (IAP), the commercial potential of over 12,000 early stage inventions. Prior to 1989, the Canadian ... -
The Statistical Derivation of Environmental Quality Guidelines
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-30)The thesis investigated statistical tools to improve the derivation of direct and indirect environmental quality guidelines (EQGs). Direct EQGs use measurements taken directly from the environmental matrix or phase of ... -
Statistical Filtering for Multimodal Mobility Modeling in Cyber Physical Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-03-28)A Cyber-Physical System integrates computations and dynamics of physical processes. It is an engineering discipline focused on technology with a strong foundation in mathematical abstractions. It shares many of these ... -
The Statistical Fingerprints of Quantum Gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-29)In this thesis some equilibrium and non-equilibrium statistical methods are implied on two different versions of non-perturbative quantum gravity. Firstly, we report a novel statistical mechanics in which a class ... -
A Statistical Framework for Non-Contact Heart Rate Estimation via Photoplethysmogram Imaging
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-01)Although medical progress and increased health awareness over the last 60 years have reduced death rates from cardiovascular disease by more than 75%, cardiovascular disease remains one of the leading causes of death, ... -
Statistical Fusion of Scientific Images
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-24)A practical and important class of scientific images are the 2D/3D images obtained from porous materials such as concretes, bone, active carbon, and glass. These materials constitute an important class of heterogeneous ... -
Statistical Geocomputing: Spatial Outlier Detection in Precision Agriculture
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-03)The collection of crop yield data has become much easier with the introduction of technologies such as the Global Positioning System (GPS), ground-based yield sensors, and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). This explosive ... -
Statistical Inference and Pricing for Regime Switching Models in Finance and Insurance
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-02)This thesis studies the estimation, goodness-of-fit testing, pricing and sampling problems for regime switching models, which are popularly used in financial markets. Specifically, we consider such models whose distributions ... -
Statistical Inference on Stochastic Graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2011-07-08)This thesis considers modelling and applications of random graph processes. A brief review on contemporary random graph models and a general Birth-Death model with relevant maximum likelihood inference procedure are ... -
Statistical Learning and Stochastic Process for Robust Predictive Control of Vehicle Suspension Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-09-12)Predictive controllers play an important role in today's industry because of their capability of verifying optimum control signals for nonlinear systems in a real-time fashion. Due to their mathematical properties, such ... -
Statistical Learning Approaches to Some Classification Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-01)Classification is essential in statistical learning. This thesis deals with three topics in classification: multi-label classification, nonparametric multi-class classification and a special type of text categorization ... -
Statistical learning in brain damaged patients: A multimodal impairment
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-19)Spatial neglect has mainly been described through its spatial deficits (such as attentional bias, disengagement deficit or exploratory motor behavior), but numerous other studies have reported non-spatial impairments in ... -
Statistical Learning in Drug Discovery via Clustering and Mixtures
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-20)In drug discovery, thousands of compounds are assayed to detect activity against a biological target. The goal of drug discovery is to identify compounds that are active against the target (e.g. inhibit a virus). Statistical ... -
Statistical Method of Goodness on Quantitative Models of Efficiency and Effectiveness
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-17)Motivated by different qualitative constructs of efficiency and effectiveness [Cameron, 1978] and the variety of distinct quantitative models of measuring efficiency and effectiveness derived from them, we propose a ... -
Statistical Methods for Event History Data under Response Dependent Sampling and Incomplete Observation
(University of Waterloo, 2020-07-17)This thesis discusses statistical problems in event history data analysis including survival analysis and multistate models. Research questions in this thesis are motivated by the Nun Study, which contains longevity data ... -
Statistical Methods for High Throughput Screening Drug Discovery Data
(University of Waterloo, 2005)High Throughput Screening (HTS) is used in drug discovery to screen large numbers of compounds against a biological target. Data on activity against the target are collected for a representative sample of compounds ... -
Statistical Methods for Incomplete Covariates and Two-Phase Designs
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-24)Incomplete data is a pervasive problem in health research, and as a result statistical methods enabling inference based on partial information play a critical role. This thesis explores estimation of regression coefficients ... -
Statistical Methods for Large-scale Multiple Testing Problems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-26)A large-scale multiple testing problem simultaneously tests thousands or even millions of null hypotheses, and it is widely used in different fields, for example genetics and astronomy. An error rate serves as a measure ... -
Statistical Methods for Life History Analysis Involving Latent Processes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-05-22)Incomplete data often arise in the study of life history processes. Examples include missing responses, missing covariates, and unobservable latent processes in addition to right censoring. This thesis is on the development ... -
Statistical Methods for Multi-State Analysis of Incomplete Longitudinal Data
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)Analyses of longitudinal categorical data are typically based on semiparametric models in which covariate effects are expressed on marginal probabilities and estimation is carried out based on generalized estimating ...