Unsupervised Learning Working Group Spring 2006

The group will focus mainly on Cluster Analysis and Unsupervised Learning Methods.


Organizers: Werner Stuetzle , Rebecca Nugent and McLean Sloughter

Spring 2006 Schedule:
Friday, Padelford CSSS Conference Room, 3:45-5:00 pm.


Friday March 31, 2006
Albert Kim, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"Boosted Lasso: Applying Boosting to Lasso Regularization"

Slides



Friday April 7th, 2006
no meeting



Friday April 14th, 2006
Werner Stuetzle, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

"Change Point Detection in Streams and Two-sample Tests"

Slides




Friday April 21st, 2006
Pavel Krivitsky, Department of Statistics, University of Washington
"A Fast, Flexible Sampler for a Latent Cluster Random Effects Social Networks Model"



Friday April 28th, 2006
no meeting



Friday May 5th, 2006
McLean Sloughter, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

"Clustering with Confidence: Overview"

Slides




Friday May 12th, 2006
no meeting



Friday May 19th, 2006
Peter Hoff, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

"Multivariate density estimation via copulas"




Friday May 26thth, 2006
no meeting; Memorial Day Weekend




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