Opinto-opas 2003-2004

7305021 TOPICS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, TOPICS IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 2-3 ov

Lecturer info
Professor ESKO TURUNEN

Lectures and exercises:
Lectures and exercise hours total: 28 h.

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Summer

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Content of the course
GUHA - a data mining method
GUHA (General Unary Hypotheses Automaton) is a method of automatic generation of hypothesis based on empirical data, thus a method of data mining. GUHA is primary suitable for exploratory analysis of large data; the processed data form a rectangle matrix, whose rows correspond to objects belonging to the sample and each column correspond to one investigated variable. A typical data matrix processed by GUHA has hundreds or thousands of rows and tens of columns. The aim in the course is to study the theoretical basis of GUHA, a logical justification for statistical reasoning, and to analyse a 'real world' data matrix possibly introduced by the student himself.

Requirements
Examination and written exercises.

Literature
Hajek P., Havranek T.: Mechanising hypothesis formation - Mathematical foundations for a general theory, Springer Verlag 1978. (Downloadable freely from http://www.cs.cas.cz/~hajek/guhabook/index.html)

Notes
The course starts in May (Summer 2004), lectures in English.

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