Projects

1. (due 10/3/2008) The maximum-entropy principle, the large-deviation principle, and the exponential family

2. (due 10/15/2008) Weak coupling in large systems (“local chaos”)

3. (due 11/7/2008) A study of k-nearest-neighbor classification -- bias, variance, and ROC performance

4. (due 11/26/2008) Parameters and the ROC performance of support-vector machines (Helpful Software and Readme's)

5. (due 11/21/2008) Cross-validated smoothing for kernel density estimators

6. (due 12/8/08) The Ising model and exact sampling by dynamic programming

7. (due 12/17/08) MCMC for expectations and restorations (Project7.mat)