Textbook
The Elements of Statistical Learning, Second Edition
Hastie, Tibshirani, and Friedman
Springer-Verlag 2001
The second edition is available from Amazon, or as a free download.
Presentation Schedule
| Date | Presenter | Topic | Materials |
| 1/20/10 | Dr. Casella | Linear Methods for Regression | Text Sections 3.1-3.5 |
| 2/1/10 | Beka Steorts | Linear Methods for Classification | Text 4.1-4.3, |
| 2/3/10 | Ryan Close | Logistic Regression | Text 4.4 |
| 2/8,10/10 | Josh | Splines |
Text 5.1-5.4 |
| 2/15,17/10 | Dmitry | NPR,Kernels | Text 5.1-4/5.6,8 |
| 2/22/10 | Li Chen | Logistic Regression | Text 7.1-5 |
| 2/24/10 | Manu | BIC/MDL | Text
7.6-8 |
| 3/1/10 | Manu | CrossVal/Bootstrap | Text 7.10-11 or 12 |
| 3/3/10 | Nirmalya | Model Inference | Text 8.1-8.4 |
| 3/8/10 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 3/10/10 | Spring Break | Spring Break | Spring Break |
| 3/15/10 | Clint | Add. Models/Trees | Text
9.1-2 |
| 3/17/10 | Sile Hu | Boosting | Text 10.1-10.5 |
| 3/22/10 | XXX | Boosting | Text 10.6-10.9 |
| 3/24/10 | Shibashish | SVM | Text 12.1-12.3.1 |
| 3/29/10 | Shibashish/Vishesh | SVM | Text 12.1-3.1/12.3.2-.3.7 |
| 3/31/10 | Vishesh | SVM | Text 12.3.2-.3.7 |
| 4/5/10 | VisheshAndRyan | SVM/RVM | Text 12.3.2.-.3.7/Notes |
| 4/7/10 | Alex | Disc. Analysis | Text 12.5-7/Notes |
| 4/12/10 | Ryan | Gaussian Processes | Bishop/Papers |
| 4/14/10 | Claudio | Clustering | Text 14.1-4 |
| 4/16/10 | Luis | PC Curves/Surfaces | Text 14.5 |
| 4/19/10 | Chris | NNMF | Text 14.5/Papers |
| 4/219/10 | Daniel | ICA | Text 14.7 |