Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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A mathematical framework for expressing multivariate distributions useful in wireless communications
DownloadFall 2010
Multivariate statistics play an important role in performance analysis of wireless communication systems in correlated fading channels. This thesis presents a framework which can be used to derive easily computable mathematical representations for some multivariate statistical distributions,...
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Fall 2013
This thesis is concerned with a measure of perceptual aliasing in image descriptors. Perceptual aliasing occurs when the one-to-one mapping relations between world states (objects) and their representation (descriptors) are not maintained. Our method measures the discriminating power of an image...