Machine Learning and Multivariate Statistics

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The course will be run over eight weeks. The first six will include lectures, practicals and journal clubs in which students will be introduced to: week 1) the basic concepts in machine learning (e.g. feature extraction, feature selection, training testing and evaluation); week 2) classification (e.g. Naïve Bayes, Logistic Regression and Support Vector Machines); week 3) multivariate regression (e.g. Ridge Regression) and modelling of neural response data; week 4) bio-inspired machine learning approaches including (deep) neuronal networks and evolutionary computation; week 5) advanced concepts in feature selection (e.g. bagging); week 6) unsupervised learning. In the last two weeks the students will be given a data set on which they will have to apply the concepts they have previously acquired by implementing a classification/regression/clustering analysis pipeline.