ML: Review

  • in Witten: Chapter 6 instance methods, clustering, EM, Bayesian Networks) 6.5, 6.7, 6.8
  • Exam on Thursday: There will be a lecture/workshop after the exam, there will be one takehome problem due in Week 10.

Review for the Exam

  • Bayes Rule, Naïve Bayes estimates
  • Concepts, instances, attributes
  • kmeans clustering (EM is optional)
  • Decision trees
  • Information gain
  • decision rules
  • coverage and accuracy
  • regression and linear models
  • Perceptron and neural networks
  • ROC, you don’t need to memorize the formula, but know what it is
  • type I and type II errors

Bayesian Networks

  • What makes Naïve Base naïve