CSI 991, Section 004.
Contacts:
csutton@gmu.edu
jgentle@gmu.edu
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Organizational meeting to select topics and develop a general schedule.
Demonstration of Weka by Jim Jones.
Weka is free and can be donloaded from
http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~ml/weka/
Discussion of boosting by Jim Shine.
Boosting is covered in Section 10.1 of HTF.
Presentation on MARS by Cliff Sutton.
MARS is covered in Section 9.4 of HTF.
There is a MARS "walkabout" at
http://www.salford-systems.com
An article on CART, bagging, and boosting by Cliff Sutton is available at http://mason.gmu.edu/~csutton/cartchap.pdf
Assignment: read Sections 9.4 through 9.7 and 10.1 through 10.9 in HTF.
Brief discussion of All of Statistics, an introductory, fast-paced book written by Larry Wasserman. Although the book is very interesting, it would probably not be a good book for our seminar. We will continue with the plans to go through HTF and to experiment with the data mining software.
Continuing discussion of MARS by Cliff Sutton.
Discuss Sections 10.2 through 10.11 in HTF.