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LECTURE MATERIAL

The lecture material will appear here, week by week as it is produced. Notes will be handed out in the lectures.

Also I will hand out copies of the handwritten overheads presented during the lectures.

If you miss a lecture, please download the notes from here, or copy them from someone else (ie. don't bug me!).

Introduction
Supplementary mathematics : vector and linear algebra
Introduction to MATLAB
Preliminaries:Data and Mathematics
Nearest Neighbour Classification
Linear Dimension Reduction My eigpca.m MATLAB code for computing PCA eigenvectors (even in high dimensional spaces).
Density Estimation

Demos and stuff

Age/Education/Hours demo : you need the files age_education.m and age_education_data.xls
Nearest Neighbour demo : you need the files nearest_neighbour_demo.m and nearest_neighbour.m
PCA demo : pca_demo.m
See the links page for the Eigenfaces stuff.

BOOKS

No single book covers the material for the course. Fairly detailed lectures notes will be provided for the course. However you may find it useful to refer to the texts below for different presentations of some of the material. I do not recommend that you buy these books. Machine Learning by Tom Mitchell. Here is a list of errata for the book obtained from Tom Mitchell's pages.

Also very useful is the book "Neural Networks for Pattern Recognition" by Chris Bishop, Oxford University Press.

David MacKay's book, "Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms" is fantastic, and downloadable for free. You certainly do not need to read all the book for the course! The chapters on neural networks are interesting, and also the basic material on probability. You can download chapters individually.


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