[pymvpa] Introduction to Machine Learning and SVMs

[Thorsten Kranz]

Hi all,

thanks a lot for your advices, there are really very helpful hints. I
will read across them and choose then.

It's really fantastic to have such an active community!

Greetings from Bonn,
Thorsten

2011/5/17 Rajeev Raizada <rajeev.raizada at dartmouth.edu>:
>> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:22:41 +0200
>> From: Brian Murphy <brian.murphy at unitn.it>
>> Subject: Re: [pymvpa] Introduction to Machine Learning and SVMs
>> I really liked this primer from Nature Biotechnology, which I think gets
>> the point across intuitively in only 3 pages:
>>    William S Noble
>>    What is a support vector machine?
>>    Nature Biotechnology 24, 1565 - 1567 (2006)
>>http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/winter_course_2006/index_files/Noble%202006%20SVM%20tutorial%20Nat%20Biotech.pdf
>>    http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html
>
> Thanks for the pointer to this.
> It's an excellent article, and would also be great for teaching.
>
> It appears that Nature Biotechnology has a whole series of such tutorial papers.
> This Google Scholar search turns up a bunch of good ones:
> http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22what+is%22%7C%22what+are%22&as_publication=nature+biotechnology
> In case that long URL gets broken via e.mail, here is a shortened version:
> http://tinyurl.com/6e4u7ct
>
> Here are direct links to some which look good:
>
> What is Bayesian statistics?
> http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/NBTPrimer-Bayes.pdf
>
> What is Principal Components Analysis?
> http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/Nbt_primer-PCA.pdf
>
> What are Decision Trees?
> http://www.gersteinlab.org/courses/452/09-spring/pdf/DecisionTrees.pdf
>
> What is a Hidden Markov Model?
> http://bio5495.wustl.edu/HMMs/Eddy-ATG4-reprint.pdf
>
> What is the Expectation Maximization algorithm?
> http://cs.utsa.edu/~jruan/teaching/cs5263_fall_2008/reading/whatisEM.pdf
>
> What are Artificial Neural Networks?
> http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~przytyck/neural_net_primer.pdf
>
> What is Dynamic Programming?
> http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/Lecture5-NBT-primer-dynamicprogramming.pdf
>
> [This last one was alread given above, but here is again anyway]
> What is a Support Vector Machine?
> http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~haihu/cap6545/Readings/svm/noble_svm.pdf
>
> That journal really contains a treasure trove!
> Thanks again to Brian Murphy for the original link to it.
>
> Raj
>
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