Projects
The relation between positive and negative affect in depression KU Leuven
How positive and negative feelings are interrelated in everyday emotional experience is a question that has intrigued affective scientists for decades. Can we experience levels of positive affect (PA) irrespective of the experienced level of negative affect (NA; i.e., affective independence), or do these emotional states represent the mutually exclusive ends of a single bipolar continuum (i.e., affective bipolarity)? The overarching premise ...
Study of a family of asymmetric densities and flexible quantile regression KU Leuven
Probability distributions are fundamental tools for data analysis and statistical inference. Although often a symmetric distribution is used as a reference density for statistical modelling, it is unsuitable for multiple other applications. In this dissertation, we study a broad family of asymmetric distributions that can describe skewed data properly. A symmetric density is a special element in this family of densities. Based on the proposed ...