Statistical Learning and Data Mining

Spring 2015

Meetings will be held every other Tuesday between 10:30 am - 11:30 am in CH212.
A broad theme for Spring 2015 is model selection.
Presentation and discussion schedule will be posted as we go along.

• January 20, 2015
  Title: Discussing this semester's topic
  


• February 10, 2015
  How biased is the apparent error rate of a prediction rule? B. Efron (1986)
  Discussants: Jieyi Jiang and Andrew Bean


• February 24, 2015
  How biased is the apparent error rate of a prediction rule? B. Efron (1986)
  Discussant: Andrew Bean


• March 10, 2015
  Heuristics of instability and stabilization in model selection L. Breiman (1996)
  Discussant: Andrew Landgraf


• March 24, 2015
  On measuring and correcting the effects of data mining and model selection J. Ye (1998)
  Discussant: Sophie Nguyen


• April 7, 2015
  No meeting this week
  


• April 21, 2015
  Effective Degrees of Freedom: A Flawed Metaphor L. Janson, W. Fithian, & T. Hastie (2014)
  Discussant: Jieyi Jiang