Fifth Summer School on Advanced Statistics and Data Mining (Madrid, June 28th - July 9th, 2010)
Rubén Armañanzas
the Technical University of Madrid (UPM) again organizes the summer
school on 'Advanced Statistics and Data Mining' in Madrid between June
28th and July 9th. This year programme comprises 14 courses divided in 2
weeks. Attendees may register in each course independently.
Registration is still *OPEN* but its deadline is close. Extended information
on courses programme, price, venue, accommodation and transport is
available at:
http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/ASDM2010
Best regards,
P. Larrañaga and R. Armañanzas.
*List of courses and brief description*
Week 1 (June 28th - July 2nd, 2010)
Course 1: Bayesian networks (15 h)
Bayesian networks basics. Inference in Bayesian networks.
Learning Bayesian networks from data.
Course 2: Hidden Markov Models (15 h)
Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms
for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models.
Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering.
Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs.
Other applications of HMMs.
Course 3: Multivariate data analysis (15 h)
Introduction. Data Examination. Principal component analysis
(PCA). Factor Analysis. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS).
Correspondence analysis. Multivariate Analysis of Variance
(MANOVA). Canonical correlation.
Course 4: Neural networks (15 h)
Introduction to the biological models. Nomenclature. Perceptron
networks. The Hebb rule. Foundations of multivariate
optimization. Numerical optimization.
Rule of Widrow-Hoff. Backpropagation algorithm.
Practical data modelling with neural networks.
Course 5: Dimensionality reduction (15 h)
Introduction. Matrix factorization methods. Clustering methods.
Projection methods. Applications.
Course 6: Supervised pattern recognition (Classification) (15 h)
Introduction. Assessing the Performance of Supervised
Classification Algorithms. Classification techniques. Combining
Classifiers. Comparing Supervised Classification Algorithms.
Course 7: Evolutionary computation (15 h)
Genetic algorithms. Genetic programming. Robust and
self-adapting intelligent systems. Introduction to Estimation of
Distribution Algorithms. Improvements, extensions and
applications of EDAs. Current research in EDAs.
Week 2 (July 5th - July 9th, 2010)
Course 8: Data mining: A practical perspective (15 h)
Introduction to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Prediction
in data mining. Classification. Association studies. Data mining
in free-form texts: text mining.
Course 9: Regression (15 h)
Introduction. Simple Linear Regression Model. Measures of model
adequacy. Multiple Linear Regression. Regression Diagnostics and
model violations. Polynomial regression. Variable selection.
Indicator variables as regressors. Logistic regression.
Nonlinear Regression.
Course 10: Time series analysis (15 h)
Introduction. Probability models to time series. Regression and
Fourier analysis. Forecasting and Data mining.
Course 11: Features Subset Selection (15 h)
Introduction. Redundance and irrelevance. Filter approaches.
Wrapper methods. Embedded methods.
Course 12: Statistical inference (15 h)
Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing.
Introduction to bootstrapping.
Course 13: Unsupervised pattern recognition (clustering) (15 h)
Introduction. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based
clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation.
Miscellanea.
Course 14: Introduction to R (15 h)
An introductory R session. Data in R. Importing/Exporting data.
Programming in R. R Graphics. Statistical Functions in R.