• Using VAE for incomplete educational data 

      Escobar Montecino, Claudia Evelyn (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa Interinstitucional de Pós-Graduação em Estatística - PIPGEs, Câmpus São Carlos, 13/03/0023)
      In Psychometrics, especially in educational assessments, incomplete databases are common. An individual may leave items unanswered in an assessment due to lack of time, forgetting the content involved, nervousness, or ...
    • Neural networks as an optimization tool for regression 

      Coscrato, Victor Azevedo (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa Interinstitucional de Pós-Graduação em Estatística - PIPGEs, Câmpus São Carlos, 02/09/2019)
      Neural networks are a tool to solve prediction problems that have gained much prominence recently. In general, neural networks are used as a predictive method, that is, their are used to estimate a regression function. ...
    • Vector representation of texts applied to prediction models 

      Stern, Deborah Bassi (Universidade Federal de São Carlos, UFSCar, Programa Interinstitucional de Pós-Graduação em Estatística - PIPGEs, Câmpus São Carlos, 09/03/2020)
      Natural Language Processing has gone through substantial changes over time. It was only recently that statistical approaches started receiving attention. The Word2Vec model is one of these. It is a shallow neural network ...