Fourth Summerschool on Advanced Statistics and Data Mining (Madrid, July 6th-17th, 2009)

the Polytechnical Univ. of Madrid organizes a summerschool on "Advanced Statistics and Data Mining" in Madrid between July 6th and July 17th. The summerschool comprises 18 courses divided in 2 weeks.
Attendees may register in each course independently. Registration will be
considered upon strict arrival order.For more information, please, visit
http://www.dia.fi.upm.es/index.php?page=presentation&hl=es_ES or http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm.

Best regards, Carlos Oscar

*List of courses and brief description* (full description at http://biocomp.cnb.csic.es/~coss/Docencia/ADAM/ADAM.htm)

Week 1 (July 6th - July 10th, 2009)

Course 1: Bayesian networks (15 h),

    Practical sessions: Hugin, Elvira, Weka, LibB     Bayesian networks basics. Inference in Bayesian networks.     Learning Bayesian networks from data Course 2: Multivariate data analysis (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB
    Introduction. Data Examination. Principal component analysis
(PCA). Factor Analysis. Multidimensional Scaling (MDS).
    Correspondence analysis. Multivariate Analysis of Variance
(MANOVA). Canonical correlation.

Course 3: Dimensionality reduction (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB

    Introduction. Matrix factorization methods. Clustering methods.     Projection methods. Applications
Course 4: Supervised pattern recognition (Classification) (15 h),

    Practical sessions: Weka
    Introduction. Assessing the Performance of Supervised     Classification Algorithms. Classification techniques. Combining     Classifiers. Comparing Supervised Classification Algorithms Course 5: Introduction to MATLAB (15 h)

    Overview of the Matlab suite. Data structures and files.     Programming in Matlab. Visualization tools. Some applications in     pattern recognition.
Course 6: Datamining, a practical perspective (15h),

    Practical sessions: MATLAB, R, Weka
    Introduction to Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery. Prediction     in data mining. Classification. Association studies. Data mining     in free-form texts: text mining.
Course 7: Time series analysis (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB

    Introduction. Probability models to time series. Regression and     Fourier analysis. Forecasting and Data mining. Course 8: Neural networks (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB

    Introduction to the biological models. Nomenclature. Perceptron     networks. The Hebb rule. Foundations of multivariate     optimization. Numerical optimization.     Rule of Widrow-Hoff. Backpropagation algorithm.     Practical data modelling with neural networks Course 9: Introduction to SPSS (15 h)

    Introduction. Describing data. Statistical inference. Time     series. Sampling. Classification and regression

Week 2 (July 13th - July 17th, 2009)

Course 10: Regression (15 h), Practical sessions: SPSS

    Introduction. Simple Linear Regression Model. Measures of model     adequacy. Multiple Linear Regression. Regression Diagnostics and     model violations. Polynomial regression. Variable selection.     Indicator variables as regressors. Logistic regression.     Nonlinear Regression.
Course 11: Practical Statistical Questions (15 h),

    Practical sessions: study of cases (without computer)     I would like to know the intuitive definition and use of …: The     basics. How do I collect the data? Experimental design.     Now I have data, how do I extract information? Parameter     estimation. Can I see any interesting association between two     variables, two populations, …?
    How can I know if what I see is “true”? Hypothesis testing     How many samples do I need for my test?: Sample size     Can I deduce a model for my data? Other questions? Course 12: Missing data and outliers (15 h), Practical sessions: R

    Missing Data: Typology of missing data; Simple missing-data     methods; Imputation Methods; Diagnostics and Overimputing.     Outliers and robust statistics: Typology of outliers; Influence     measures; Robust methods
Course 13: Hidden Markov Models (15 h), Practical sessions:HTK

    Introduction. Discrete Hidden Markov Models. Basic algorithms     for Hidden Markov Models. Semicontinuous Hidden Markov Models.     Continuous Hidden Markov Models. Unit selection and clustering.     Speaker and Environment Adaptation for HMMs.     Other applications of HMMs
Course 14: Statistical inference (15 h), Practical sessions: SPSS

    Introduction. Some basic statistical test. Multiple testing.     Introduction to bootstrapping
Course 15: Features Subset Selection (15 h),

    Practical sessions: MATLAB, R, Weka
    Filter approaches. Wrapper methods. Embedded methods. Course 16: Introduction to R (15 h)

    An introductory R session. Data in R. Importing/Exporting data.     Programming in R. R Graphics. Statistical Functions in R Course 17: Unsupervised pattern recognition (clustering) (15 h),

    Practical sessions: MATLAB
    Introduction. Prototype-based clustering. Density-based     clustering. Graph-based clustering. Cluster evaluation.     Miscellanea
Course 18: Evolutionary computation (15 h), Practical sessions: MATLAB

    Genetic algorithms. Genetic programming. Robust and     self-adapting intelligent systems. Introduction to Estimation of     Distribution Algorithms. Improvements, extensions and     applications of EDAs. Current research in EDAs. Received on Fri May 15 2009 - 11:16:03 CEST