Machine Learning is the study of methods for programming computers to learn. Computers are applied to a wide range of tasks, and for most of these it is relatively easy for programmers to design and implement the necessary software. However, there are many tasks for which this is difficult or impossible. These can be divided into four general categories. First, there are problems for which there exist no human experts. For example, in modern automated manufacturing facilities, there is a need to predict machine failures before they occur by analyzing sensor readings. Because the machines are new, there are no human experts who can be interviewed by a programmer to provide the knowledge necessary to build a computer system. A machine learning system can study recorded data and subsequent machine failures and learn prediction rules. Second, there are problems where human experts exist, but where they are unable to explain their expertise. This is the case in many perceptual tasks, such as speech recognition, hand-writing recognition, and natural language understanding. Virtually all humans exhibit expert-level abilities on these tasks, but none of them can describe the detailed steps that they follow as they perform them. Fortunately, humans can provide machines with examples of the inputs and correct outputs for these tasks, so machine learning algorithms can learn to map the inputs to the outputs. Third, there are problems where phenomena are changing rapidly. In finance, for example, people would like to predict the future behavior of the stock market, of consumer purchases, or of exchange rates. These behaviors change frequently, so that even if a programmer could construct a good predictive computer program, it would need to be rewritten frequently. A learning program can relieve the programmer of this burden by constantly modifying and tuning a set of learned prediction rules. Fourth, there are applications that need to be customized for each computer user separately. Consider, for example, a program to filter unwanted electronic mail messages. Different users will need different filters. It is unreasonable to expect each user to program his or her own rules, and it is infeasible to provide every user with a software engineer to keep the rules up-to-date. A machine learning system can learn which mail messages the user rejects and maintain the filtering rules automatically. Machine learning addresses many of the same research questions as the fields of statistics, data mining, and psychology, but with differences of emphasis. Statistics focuses on understanding the phenomena that have generated the data, often with the goal of testing different hypotheses about those phenomena. Data mining seeks to find patterns in the data that are understandable by people. Psychological studies of human learning aspire to understand the mechanisms underlying the various learning behaviors exhibited by people (concept learning, skill acquisition, strategy change, etc.).

Machine learning

(1991). Applied Linear Regression Models. Journal of Quality Technology: Vol. 23, No. 1, pp. 76-77.

Applied Linear Regression Models

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Statistical Parametric Mapping The Analysis Of Functional Brain Images

8. Subset Selection in Regression (Monographs on Statistics and Applied Probability, no. 40). By A. J. Miller. ISBN 0 412 35380 6. Chapman and Hall, London, 1990. 240 pp. £25.00.

Subset Selection in Regression

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Feature significance for multivariate kernel density estimation

'Big data' poses challenges that require both classical multivariate methods and contemporary techniques from machine learning and engineering. This modern text equips you for the new world - integrating the old and the new, fusing theory and practice and bridging the gap to statistical learning. The theoretical framework includes formal statements that set out clearly the guaranteed 'safe operating zone' for the methods and allow you to assess whether data is in the zone, or near enough. Extensive examples showcase the strengths and limitations of different methods with small classical data, data from medicine, biology, marketing and finance, high-dimensional data from bioinformatics, functional data from proteomics, and simulated data. High-dimension low-sample-size data gets special attention. Several data sets are revisited repeatedly to allow comparison of methods. Generous use of colour, algorithms, Matlab code, and problem sets complete the package. Suitable for master's/graduate students in statistics and researchers in data-rich disciplines.

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Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data

In this paper a nonparametric procedure for testing for monotonicity of a regression mean with guaranteed level is proposed. The procedure is based on signs of differences of observations from the response variable. The test is calibrated against the most difficult null hypothesis, when the regression function is constant, and produces an exact test in this context. In general, the test is conservative. The power of the test is good, and comparable with that of other nonparametric tests. It is shown that the testing procedure has asymptotic power 1 against certain local alternatives. The method is also robust against heavy-tailed error distributions, and even maintains good power when the errors are for example Cauchy distributed. A simulation study is provided to demonstrate finite-sample behaviour of the testing procedure.

https://www.jstor.org/stable/info/2673637

Tests for monotonicity of a regression mean with guaranteed level

Component extraction techniques are used widely in the analysis and interpretation of high-dimensional climate datasets such as global sea surface temperatures (SSTs). Principal component analysis (PCA), a frequently used component extraction technique, provides an orthogonal representation of the multivariate dataset and maximizes the variance explained by successive components. A disadvantage of PCA, however, is that the interpretability of the second and higher components may be limited. For this reason, a Varimax rotation is often applied to the PCA solution to enhance the interpretability of the components by maximizing a simple structure. An alternative rotational approach is known as independent component analysis (ICA), which finds a set of underlying ‘source signals’ which drive the multivariate ‘mixed’ dataset.



Here we compare the capacity of PCA, the Varimax rotation and ICA in explaining climate variability present in globally distributed SST anomaly (SSTA) data. We find that phenomena which are global in extent, such as the global warming trend and the El Nino-Southern Oscillation (ENSO), are well represented using PCA. In contrast, the Varimax rotation provides distinct advantages in interpreting more localized phenomena such as variability in the tropical Atlantic. Finally, our analysis suggests that the interpretability of independent components (ICs) appears to be low. This does not diminish the statistical advantages of deriving components that are mutually independent, with potential applications ranging from synthetically generating multivariate datasets, developing statistical forecasts, and reconstructing spatial datasets from patchy observations at multiple point locations. Copyright © 2009 Royal Meteorological Society

Interpreting variability in global SST data using independent component analysis and principal component analysis

Principal component analysis (PCA) is widely used for feature extraction and dimension reduction in pattern recognition and data analysis. Despite its popularity, the reduced dimension obtained from the PCA is difficult to interpret due to the dense structure of principal loading vectors. To address this issue, several methods have been proposed for sparse PCA, all of which estimate loading vectors with few non-zero elements. However, when more than one principal component is estimated, the associated loading vectors do not possess the same sparsity pattern. Therefore, it becomes difficult to determine a small subset of variables from the original feature space that have the highest contribution in the principal components. To address this issue, an adaptive block sparse PCA method is proposed. The proposed method is guaranteed to obtain the same sparsity pattern across all principal components. Experiments show that applying the proposed sparse PCA method can help improve the performance of feature selection for image processing applications. We further demonstrate that our proposed sparse PCA method can be used to improve the performance of blind source separation for functional magnetic resonance imaging data.

Inge Koch

Papers

Feature significance for multivariate kernel density estimation

Analysis of Multivariate and High-Dimensional Data

Tests for monotonicity of a regression mean with guaranteed level

Interpreting variability in global SST data using independent component analysis and principal component analysis

Sparse Principal Component Analysis With Preserved Sparsity Pattern