Working Group on Statistical Learning (2005-2006)
Date Speaker Talk Title
12.10.2005 Claire Gormley Mixture Models, Benter's Model & the MM Algorithm
19.10.2005 Brendan Murphy Variable Selection in Model-Based Discriminant Analysis
26.10.2005 Paul McNicholas Parsimonious Gaussian Mixture Models
02.11.2005 Katarina Domijan Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Spaces for Classification
09.11.2005 Frank Boland Approximate Entropy as a measure of System Complexity
16.11.2005 Francois Pitié and Rozenn Dahyot Probability Distribution Transfer and the Monge problem
23.11.2005 Claire Gormley Mixture Models for Ranking Data
30.11.2005 Cathal Walsh Incoherent stochastic drift through what, how and why we should learn statistically
11.01.2006 Michael Carney Optimisation for Empirically Valid Density Forecasts
18.01.2006 Claire Gormley Latent Space Models
25.01.2006 Paul McNicholas Association Rules
01.02.2006 Deirdre Toher Classification In Food Authenticity Studies
08.02.2006 Pádraig Cunningham Tutorial on SVMs
15.02.2006 Angela Quinlan Minimal performance bounds on parameter estimation
22.02.2006 Myra O'Regan Random Forests
01.03.2006 Anthony Quinn The Variational Bayes Approximation and its Uses.
08.03.2006 Myra O'Regan Classifier Technology and the Illusion of Progress
05.04.2006 Simon Wilson Bayesian content-based image retrieval
12.04.2006 Michael Salter-Townshend Zero Inflation of Compositional Data
26.04.2006 Khurshid Ahmad Neural Computing and learning to subitize and to count
03.05.2006 Andrew Parnell Sometime around the day after tomorrow: temporal uncertainty in climate change
10.05.2006 Senan Doyle Feasible Link Statistics for Adaptive Ad Hoc Networks