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- When and Where:
Bldg 12/L4 (Law),
Monday, 12.00-2.00pm,
weeks 1-12,
semester 1.
- Week 1, 1-hour lecture.
- Week 2, no lecture Monday 8 March.
- Weeks 3 - 10, 1.5-hour lecture, and occasional Q+A or "tute" after.
- Prac' (20% + 20%) see below.
- Examination: 60% (1.5 hours),
seminar room,
Thurs 17 June,
10am sharp.
NB. You will need to get, in good time, an account
on the csse machine `nexus' to do prac2.
May change -- check regularly!
- week 1, 1 March (NB. Was S14 ...moving)
[Admin]
[Intro]
- week 2, 8 March
No lecture this Monday 8 March.
- week 3, 15 March (Bldg 12/L4)
([Data & models and/or)
[MU]
(~[ACSC])
[information]
- week 4, March
[Snob],
[Unsupervised class'n],
[finite-state],
[2-state dist'n]
- week 5, March - April
Use and discuss the 0th- and 1st-order Markov models
[here],
model complexity v. fit to data.
[Normal] distribution.
[Mixture] modelling...
- week 6, April
...[EM-algorithm]
[Supervised class'n]
[Classification Trees1]
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- week 7, April
[Classification Trees2]
[algorithm] and
[application]
- week 8, April
[Fisher info]-(carry-over)
[multi-state]...
[prac1] 20%, due noon (CSSE office) Thurs, week 8
Start [prac2], see below.
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- week 9, May
...multi-state
[Int codes],
[Coding]
including a sketch(!) of arithmetic coding.
- week 10, May
building block (distribution) |
examples of
structured models
[e.g. B' network]
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cond' prob' table (CPT) |
Markov model of order k |
prob' finite state automaton
PFSA/ HMM |
mixture model |
classification tree or graph
(decision trees or graphs)
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multi state |
for each "row" |
for each "context" |
(i) for arc existence
(ii) exit probabilities (per state) |
(i) abundances of components
(ii) for discrete attributes |
distribution of categories (discrete attributes), per leaf |
an int' code |
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k (unless it is common knowledge) |
# states |
# components (classes) |
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continuous, e.g. N(m,s) |
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for continuous attributes |
(leaf distributions, if continuous allowed) |
other? |
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structure of tree or graph |
- week 12, May
Past examination papers:
[2004] (after the event),
[2003],
[2002],
and other
[possible questions].
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