Projects

1. (due 9/24/2007) The maximum-entropy principle, the large-deviation principle, and the exponential family

2. (due 10/5/2007) Weak coupling in large systems ("local chaos")

3. (due 10/19/2007) God's Receiver Operating Characteristic

4. (due 10/26/2007) A study of k-nearest-neighbor classification - bias, variance, and ROC performance

5. (due 11/5/2007) A study of support-vector machines - bias, variance, and ROC performance (Helpful Software and Readme's)

6. (due 11/19/2007) Cross-validated smoothing for kernel density estimators

7. (due 12/3/2007) The Ising model and exact sampling by dynamic programming

8. (due 12/10/2007) MCMC for expectations and restorations

9. (due 12/21/2007) Estimating model parameters from noisy images (Project9.mat)