Module Title:
Advanced Database Technology
Module Code:
DSM6231

Module Content

• Basis expansions and regularization (piecewise polynomials, splines, filtering and feature Extraction).
• Smoothing methods (smoothing splines, Kernel smoothing, wavelet smoothing).
• Additive models, tree-based methods and boosting methods.
• Boosting and additive trees
• Neural networks.
• Support vector machines and flexible discriminants.
• Unsupervised learning (association rules, cluster analysis).
• Random forests
• Bayesian learning: Bayes' theorem to combine data information with other prior information. Bayesian analysis of conjugate models. Markov Chain Monte Carlo methods for Bayesian computations.
• High-dimensional problems