Latent variable methods and applications (2012)

Course notes
This section will be briefly covered in class on 29 March 2012. Only the basic concepts will be covered.


 * * [[Image:Nuvola_mimetypes_pdf.png|20px|link=http://learnche.org/pid]] (PDF) Course notes. Please read the start of Chapter 6 for an overview. The rest of the chapter will not be covered in this course.


 * A more complete 1-semester course on latent variable methods was taught at McMaster in 2011.

Projector overheads
A high-level overview of latent variable methods:

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Code that shows least squares failing
We get very different models for very small changes in the raw data when our variables are strongly correlated.

Code for the rotating cube
Created using R with this code, then converted to a video file using http://ffmpeg.org/