Browsing Theses by Subject "probability"
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Can children use probability to guide their choices under uncertainty?
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-01)We encounter situations in our everyday lives where we need to make decisions under uncertainty. But what kind of information do we use and what abilities are helpful to us when making decisions under uncertainty? In three ... -
Children use probability to infer other people’s emotions
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-09)People’s emotional reactions often depend on probability. However, it is unknown whether children consider probability when inferring other people’s emotions. Across three papers, this dissertation shows that children (N ... -
Conditional Probability in Visual Search
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)I investigated the effects of probability on visual search. Previous work has shown that people can utilize spatial and sequential probability information to improve their performance on visual attention tasks. My task was ... -
Diameter and Rumour Spreading in Real-World Network Models
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-20)The so-called 'small-world phenomenon', observed in many real-world networks, is that there is a short path between any two nodes of a network, whose length is much smaller that the network's size, typically growing as a ... -
A mathematical foundation for the use of cliques in the exploration of data with navigation graphs
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-19)Navigation graphs were introduced by Hurley and Oldford (2011) as a graph-theoretic framework for exploring data sets, particularly those with many variables. They allow the user to visualize one small subset of the variables ... -
Perception of Probabilities which are Subject to Change
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-29)To navigate stochastic and changing environments, people need to keep track of ongoing probabilities as those probabilities are subject to change. Two distinct theories of mental-model updating are compared. In trial-by-trial ... -
Probabilistic Adaptation and Voluntary Attention
(University of Waterloo, 2019-04-25)The following experiments considered the general phenomenon of behavioural adaptation in response to statistical regularities—which we refer to as probability learning (PL). In particular, these experiments focused on ... -
Probabilistic Life Cycle Assessment of Safety Valves
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-14)The objective of this this thesis is to develop a probabilistic model for assessing the life cycle performance of safety valves used in the nuclear piping system. The life cycle performance is quantified in terms of ... -
Quantitative Testing of Probabilistic Phase Unwrapping Methods
(University of Waterloo, 2001)The reconstruction of a phase surface from the observed principal values is required for a number of applications, including synthetic aperture radar (SAR) and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). However, the process of ...