Papers suggested by Kevin Murphy for 2009--2010
for the Stats 548 qualifying exam

I am keen to have a student implement these methods and reproduce the figures from the papers. Contact me if interested and we can discuss the details.

Matt Beal and Zoubin Ghahramani Variational Bayesian Learning of Directed Graphical Models with Hidden Variables, Bayesian Analysis 1(4), 2006.
F. Liang and S. Mukherjee and M. West, Understanding the use of unlabelled data in predictive modelling, Statistical Science, 22:189-205, 2007.