Data Mining & Statistical Learning Study Group

Schedule for Winter 2008

• January 8, 10:30 -- 11:30, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Lifeng Wang
  Title: Regularization and Variable Selection for Multiclass Support Vector Machine and Varying-Coefficient Models with Applications in Genomics
  Multi-category support vector machines, feature selection and solution path
  Lifeng Wang and Xiaotong Shen, Statistical Sinica 16 (2006)


• January 28, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Radu Herbei
  Title: Improved Estimation of Dissimilarities by Presmoothing Functional Data
  Improved Estimation of Dissimilarities by Presmoothing Functional Data
  Author: D. B. Hitchcock and G. Casella and J. G. Booth
  Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2006.


• February 4, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: TBA
  


• February 11, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Yoon Suh Jung
  Title: Regularization in Statistics
  Regularization in Statistics
  Peter Bickel and Bo Li (2006)


• February 18, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
  Title: Regularization in Statistics -- Discussions
  Regularization in Statistics
  Peter Bickel and Bo Li (2006)


• February 25, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
  Title: Regularization in Statistics -- Discussions (continued)
  


• March 3, 11:00 -- 12:00, 212 CH
  - Speaker: Jared Schuetter
  Title: Spectral Clustering
  Papers and Presentation