Stat 557/IST 557: Data Mining
Topic Schedule

Week Topic
1   Basics in supervised learning
2-5   Linear methods for classification (Project 1)
a. Linear regression
b. LDA
c. Logistic regression
6-7   Prototype methods for classification
a. K-means
b. Learning vector quantization
c. K nearest-neighbor
8   Clustering methods
a. K-center
b. Pairwise distance based clustering:
dendrogram (Project 2)
9-11   Classification and Regression Trees (Project 3)
11-15   Mixture discriminant analysis (Project 4)
15-16   Hidden Markov model and its applications