Stat 406 Spring 2006

Lectures MWF 1-2 Geography 200.
Lab Wed 4-5 in LSK 310.
My Office hours: Mon 2-3 in LSK 308d.
TA: Aline Tabet (a.tabet@stat.ubc.ca).
Her office hours: Fridays 12-1 or 2-3 in LSK 312.

Official UBC calendar entry
Provisional syllabus.

Pre-requisite: Stat306 or CS340 or equivalent.

Related classes.

Background reading

Matlab help
Course notes (pdf)
"Bayesian models of inductive learning", Josh Tenenbaum and Tom Griffiths, CogSci04 tutorial
Lagrange multipliers without permanent scarring, Dan Klein
An Introduction to the Conjugate Gradient Method Without the Agonizing Pain, Jonathan Shewchuk, 1994
Probability for data miners, introductory slides on joint probability distributions, by Andrew Moore.
Probability density functions, introductory slides on expectation, covariance, etc, by Andrew Moore.
Machine learning glossary by Tom Minka
ROC Graphs: Notes and practical considerations for data mining researchers, Tom Fawcett, 2003.
Probability theory: the logic of science, ET Jaynes, 1994 (incomplete online edition).
Subjective probability: the real thing, Richard Jeffrey, 2004 (Cambridge University Press)
Statistical pattern recognition: a review, Jain, Duin and Mao, PAMI 22(1):4--27, 2000.
Operations for Learning with Graphical Models, Wray Buntine, JAIR 1994

L#	Date	Topic	Homework
L1	Wed Jan 4	Sec 2.1-2.2
L2	Fri Jan 6	Sec 3.3.1-3.3.2
L3	Mon Jan 9	Sec 4.1	Hw1.pdf, Data set: biometric_data_simple.txt
L4	Wed Jan 11	Sec 3.3.3	Matlab code for lab 1
L5	Fri Jan 13	Sec 7.2
L6	Mon Jan 16	Paris	Hw2.pdf, Code: MI.m, Data: docdata.mat, words.txt
L7	Wed Jan 18	6.1,6.2
L8	Fri Jan 20	6.2.1
L9	Mon Jan 23	5.5
L10	Wed Jan 25	5.3, 5.4, 5.5	Hw3.pdf, Code: Code.zip,
L11	Fri Jan 27	8.1.1
L12	Mon Jan 30	8.1.2,8.1.3,8.2
L13	Wed Feb 1
L14	Fri Feb 3		Hw4.pdf, Code: Code.zip,
L15	Mon Feb 6
L16	Wed Feb 8
L17	Fri Feb 10	Review
L18	Mon Feb 13	Spring break
L19	Wed Feb 15	Spring break
L20	Fri Feb 17	Spring break
L21	Mon Feb 20
L22	Wed Feb 22
L23	Fri Feb 24	Midterm
L24	Mon Feb 27
L25	Wed Mar 1
L26	Fri Mar 3		hw5.pdf,
L27	Mon Mar 6
L28	Wed Mar 8
L29	Fri Mar 10		hw6.zip, hw6.pdf,
L30	Mon Mar 13
L31	Wed Mar 15
L32	Fri Mar 16
L33	Mon Mar 20		hw7.pdf
L34	Wed Mar 22
L35	Fri Mar 24
L36	Mon Mar 27		hw8.pdf, polybayesEvIncomplete.m netlab
L37	Wed Mar 29
L38	Fri Mar 31
L39	Mon Apr 3
L40	Wed Apr 5
L41	Fri Apr 7

Final exam date : STAT406 .201 Wed Apr 19, 8:30 am MATH 104