STA 414/2104 (Fall 2015): Statistical Methods for Machine Learning and Data Mining - Lecture Schedule

Tentative Lecture Schedule

  • Lecture 1 -- Machine Learning:
    Introduction to Machine Learning, Probability Distributions (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 1: sec. 1.1 - 1.3

  • Lecture 2 -- Probability Distributions:
    (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 2: sec. 2.1 - 2.4

  • Lecture 3 -- Regression (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 1: sec. 1.5
    Chapter 3: sec. 3.1 - 3.2

  • Lecture 4 -- Bayesian inference (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 3: sec. 3.3 - 3.5

  • Lecture 5 -- Classification (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 4: sec. 4.1 - 4.5

  • Lecture 6 -- Gaussian Processes (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 6: sec. 6.4

  • Lecture 7 -- Mixture Models (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 9: sec. 9.1 - 9.3.

  • Lecture 8 -- Latent Variable Models (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 12: sec. 12.1 - 12.2, 12.4

  • Lecture 9 -- Modeling Sequential Data (notes [pdf])
    Reading: Bishop, Chapter 13: sec. 13.1 - 13.2.

  • Lecture 10 -- Wrap-up and Final Review (notes [pdf])


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