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Variable Ranking by Solution-path Algorithms

Wang, Bo (University of Waterloo, 2012-01-20)

Variable Selection has always been a very important problem in statistics. We often meet situations where a huge data set is given and we want to find out the relationship between the response and the corresponding variables. ...
Variable selection and prediction in biased samples with censored outcomes

Wu, Ying; Cook, Richard J. (Springer, 2018-01-01)

With the increasing availability of large prospective disease registries, scientists studying the course of chronic conditions often have access to multiple data sources, with each source generated based on its own entry ...
Variational Bayesian Learning and its Applications

Zhao, Hui (University of Waterloo, 2014-01-03)

This dissertation is devoted to studying a fast and analytic approximation method, called the variational Bayesian (VB) method, and aims to give insight into its general applicability and usefulness, and explore its ...
Waiting Time Distributions in the Preemptive Accumulating Priority Queue

Fajardo, Val Andrei; Drekic, Steve (Springer, 2017-03-01)

We consider a queueing system in which a single server attends to N priority classes of customers. Upon arrival to the system, a customer begins to accumulate priority linearly at a rate which is distinct to the class to ...