Data Mining and Statistical Learning

Winter 2010

All meetings will be held on Thursday, b/w 9:30am - 11:00am in CH212.

• January 14th, 2010
  Speaker: Cong Liu
  Discussion on "Asymptotics for Lasso-Type Estimators"
  by Keith Knight and Wenjiang Fu
  


• January 21st, 2010
  Speaker: Yoonsuh Jung
  Title: Robust LASSO and Efficient Quantile Regression through Regularization of Case-Specific Parameters


• January 28th, 2010
  No Meeting!!!


• February 4th, 2010
  No Meeting!!!


• February 11th, 2010
  Speaker: Prasenjit Kapat
  Discussion on "Trading Variance Reduction with Unbiasedness - The Regularized Subspace Information Criterion for Robust Model Selection in Kernel Regression"
  by Sugiyama, Kawanabe, and Müller
  


• February 18th, 2010
  Speaker: Stephen Bamattre
  Title: The Tau-Path Method for Detecting Temporally Stable Monotone Associations in Subpopulations


• February 25th, 2010
  Speaker: Kazuki Uematsu
  Title: Statistical Analysis of Bipartite and Multipartite Ranking by Convex Risk Minimization


• March 4th, 2010
  Speaker: Cong Liu
  Title: A Comparative Study of Variable Screening Methods: Univariate versus Multivariate Screening


• March 11th, 2010
  Speaker: Kerby Shedden (University of Michigan)
  Title: Discussion on papers "Effect of Training Sample Size and Classification Difficulty on the Accuracy of Genomic Predictors" and "Effects of Sample Size in Classifier Design "