Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning [Paperback]

Extensive treatment of the most up-to-date topics

Provides the theory and concepts behind popular and emerging methods

Range of topics drawn from Statistics, Computer Science, and Electrical Engineering

This book provides a thorough introduction to the most important topics in data mining and machine learning. All the topics covered have undergone rapid development and this treatment offers a modern perspective emphasizing the most recent contributions.

The idea for this book came from the time the authors spent at the Statistics and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI) in Research Triangle Park in North Carolina starting in fall 2003. The rst author was there for a total of two years, the rst year as a Duke/SAMSI Research Fellow. The second author was there for a year as a Post-Doctoral Scholar. The third author has the great fortune to be in RTP p- manently. SAMSI was  and remains  an incredibly rich intellectual environment with a general atmosphere of free-wheeling inquiry that cuts across established elds. SAMSI encourages creativity: It is the kind of place where researchers can be found at work in the small hours of the morning  computing, interpreting computations, and developing methodology. Visiting SAMSI is a unique and wonderful experience. The people most responsible for making SAMSI the great success it is include Jim Berger, Alan Karr, and Steve Marron. We would also like to express our gratitude to Dalene Stangl and all the others from Duke, UNC-Chapel Hill, and NC State, as well as to the visitors (short and long term) who were involved in the SAMSI programs. It was a magical time we remember with ongoing appreciation.Variability, Information, and Prediction.- Local Smoothers.- Spline Smoothing.- New Wave Nonparametrics.- Supervised Learning: Partition Methods.- Alternative Nonparametrics.- Computational Comparisons.- Unsupervised Learning: Clustering.- Learning inlsj