A first course in machine learning. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Simon Rogers, Mark Girolami.
• Other Names: Rogers, Simon, 1979-; Girolami, Mark, 1963-
• Contents: Linear Modelling: A Least Squares Approach; Linear modelling; Making predictions; Vector/matrix notation; Nonlinear response from a linear model; Generalisation and over-fitting; Regularised least squares Linear Modelling: A Maximum Likelihood Approach; Errors as noise; Random variables and probability; Popular discrete distributions; Continuous random variables — density functions; Popular continuous density functions; Thinking generatively; Likelihood; The bias-variance tradeoff; Effect of noise on parameter estimates; Variability in predictions The Bayesian Approach to Machine Learning; A coin game; The exact posterior; The three scenarios; Marginal likelihoods; Hyper-parameters; Graphical models; A Bayesian treatment of the Olympics 100 m data; Marginal likelihood for polynomial model order selection; Summary Bayesian Inference; Nonconjugate models; Binary responses; A point estimate — the MAP solution; The Laplace approximation; Sampling techniques; Summary Classification; The general problem; Probabilistic classifiers; Nonprobabilistic classifiers; Assessing classification performance; Discriminative and generative classifiers; Summary Clustering; The general problem; K -means clustering; Mixture models; Summary Principal Components Analysis and Latent Variable Models; The general problem; Principal components analysis (PCA); Latent variable models; Variational Bayes; A probabilistic model for PCA; Missing values; Non-real-valued data; Summary Glossary Index Exercises and Further Reading appear at the end of each chapter.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Chapman and Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations
• Subjects: 006.31; Machine learning; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Statistics; COMPUTERS / General; COMPUTERS / Database Management / Data Mining
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466506299; 1466506296
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