STAT 538

Statistical Computing
STAT 538 Winter Quarter 2007

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Handouts and Course Notes

Handout 1 Introduction
Handout 2 Unconstrained optimization
Handout 3 Boosting, Bagging and Bayesian averaging (21 pages, REVISED) for additional reading on boosting see the section on boosting on this resources page
Handout 4 (49 pages) Linear and Integer programming
Handout 5 Variational inference in graphical models
after An Introduction to Variational Methods in Graphical Models" by Jordan, Ghahramani, Jaakkola and Saul (Machine Learning, 1999)

Contact the instructor at: mmp@stat.washington.edu