Hi all, thanks a lot for your advices, there are really very helpful hints. I will read across them and choose then.
It's really fantastic to have such an active community! Greetings from Bonn, Thorsten 2011/5/17 Rajeev Raizada <[email protected]>: >> Date: Mon, 16 May 2011 23:22:41 +0200 >> From: Brian Murphy <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: [pymvpa] Introduction to Machine Learning and SVMs >> I really liked this primer from Nature Biotechnology, which I think gets >> the point across intuitively in only 3 pages: >> William S Noble >> What is a support vector machine? >> Nature Biotechnology 24, 1565 - 1567 (2006) >>http://www.broadinstitute.org/annotation/winter_course_2006/index_files/Noble%202006%20SVM%20tutorial%20Nat%20Biotech.pdf >> http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v24/n12/abs/nbt1206-1565.html > > Thanks for the pointer to this. > It's an excellent article, and would also be great for teaching. > > It appears that Nature Biotechnology has a whole series of such tutorial > papers. > This Google Scholar search turns up a bunch of good ones: > http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=intitle%3A%22what+is%22%7C%22what+are%22&as_publication=nature+biotechnology > In case that long URL gets broken via e.mail, here is a shortened version: > http://tinyurl.com/6e4u7ct > > Here are direct links to some which look good: > > What is Bayesian statistics? > http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/NBTPrimer-Bayes.pdf > > What is Principal Components Analysis? > http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/Nbt_primer-PCA.pdf > > What are Decision Trees? > http://www.gersteinlab.org/courses/452/09-spring/pdf/DecisionTrees.pdf > > What is a Hidden Markov Model? > http://bio5495.wustl.edu/HMMs/Eddy-ATG4-reprint.pdf > > What is the Expectation Maximization algorithm? > http://cs.utsa.edu/~jruan/teaching/cs5263_fall_2008/reading/whatisEM.pdf > > What are Artificial Neural Networks? > http://www.apl.jhu.edu/~przytyck/neural_net_primer.pdf > > What is Dynamic Programming? > http://www.marcottelab.org/users/CH391L/Handouts/Lecture5-NBT-primer-dynamicprogramming.pdf > > [This last one was alread given above, but here is again anyway] > What is a Support Vector Machine? > http://www.cs.ucf.edu/~haihu/cap6545/Readings/svm/noble_svm.pdf > > That journal really contains a treasure trove! > Thanks again to Brian Murphy for the original link to it. > > Raj > > _______________________________________________ > Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa > _______________________________________________ Pkg-ExpPsy-PyMVPA mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/mailman/listinfo/pkg-exppsy-pymvpa
