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Machine
Learning:
Syllabus
Rao
Vemuri
rvemuri@gmail.com
Fall
2013
Pre-requisites
Calculus
Chain
rule
of
dieren1a1on.
Finding
maxima
and
minima
of
func1ons,
logarithms,
exponen1als
Probability
Sample
spaces.
Axioms
of
probability,
condi1onal
probability,
Bayes
formula
Normal
distribu1on
MATLAB
or
equivalent
2
Text
Books
Tom
Mitchell,
Machine
Learning,
McGraw
Hill,
Second
Edi)on
Any
good
book
on
MATLAB
I
will
get
you
at
least
two
copies
of
the
text
book
that
students
can
use
as
a
reference
You
can
go
to
Tom
Mitchells
web
site
and
download
ppt
slides
and
view
videos
hdp://www.cs.cmu.edu/~tom/10701_sp11/
lectures.shtml
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References
There
are
a
number
of
useful
reference
books.
Each
covers
material
that
is
more
advanced
than
the
class
material.
Bishop,
Christopher.
Neural
Networks
for
Pa/ern
Recogni5on.
New
York,
NY:
Oxford
University
Press,
1995.
ISBN:
9780198538646.
Duda,
Richard,
Peter
Hart,
and
David
Stork.
Pa/ern
Classica5on.
2nd
ed.
New
York,
NY:
Wiley-Interscience,
2000.
ISBN:
9780471056690.
Has)e,
T.,
R.
Tibshirani,
and
J.
H.
Friedman.
The
Elements
of
Sta5s5cal
Learning:
Data
Mining,
Inference
and
Predic5on.
New
York,
NY:
Springer,
2001.
ISBN:
9780387952840.
MacKay,
David.
Informa5on
Theory,
Inference,
and
Learning
Algorithms.
Cambridge,
UK:
Cambridge
University
Press,
2003.
ISBN:
9780521642989.