[R] Statistical Learning and Data Mining course

[Trevor Hastie]

Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining
 
Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani, Stanford University
 
Georgetown University Conference Center
Washington DC
September 20-21, 2004
 
This two-day course gives a detailed overview of statistical models
for data mining, inference and prediction.  With the rapid
developments in internet technology, genomics and other high-tech
industries, we rely increasingly more on data analysis and statistical
models to exploit the vast amounts of data at our fingertips.
 
This sequel to our popular "Modern Regression and Classification"
course covers many new areas of unsupervised learning and data mining,
and gives an in-depth treatment of some of the hottest tools in
supervised learning.
 
The first course is not a prerequisite for this new course.
Most of the techniques discussed in the course are implemented by the
authors and others in the S language (S-plus or R), and all of the
examples were developed in S.
 
Day one focuses on state-of-art  methods for supervised
learning, including PRIM, boosting, support vector machines,
and very recent work on least angle regression and the lasso.
 
Day two covers unsupervised learning, including clustering, principal
components, principal curves and self-organizing maps.  Many
applications will be discussed, including the analysis of DNA
expression arrays - one of the hottest new areas in biology!
 
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Much of the material is based on the book:
 
Elements of Statistical Learning: data mining, inference and prediction
 
Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, Springer-Verlag, 2001
 
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/ElemStatLearn/
 
A copy of this book will be given to all attendees.
 
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For more information, and to register, visit the course homepage:
 
http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie/mrc.html
 

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  Trevor Hastie                                  hastie at stanford.edu  
  Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
  Phone: (650) 725-2231 (Statistics)          Fax: (650) 725-8977  
  (650) 498-5233 (Biostatistics)   Fax: (650) 725-6951
  URL: http://www-stat.stanford.edu/~hastie  
  address: room 104, Department of Statistics, Sequoia Hall
           390 Serra Mall, Stanford University, CA 94305-4065