ECE662: "Satistical Pattern Recognition and Decision Making Processes", Spring 2010

General Course Information

• Instructor: Prof. Boutin a.k.a. Prof. Mimi
• Office: MSEE342
• Email: mboutin at purdue dot you know where
• Class meets Tu,Th 12-13:15 in EE115
• Office hours are listed here
• Syllabus
• Course Outline
• Class cancellation: Jan 19, Jan 21, Feb 23, Feb 25
• Make up classes: to be announced. Please list the times when you cannot meet here

Class related material

• Illustration of Central Limit Theorem with uniform distrribution

Discussions and Students' perspectives

• Introduction and Expectations
• Is Bayes truly the best?
• Central Limit Theorem illustrations
• Hw1: Discuss the first hw here.
• Distance Functions Where Triangle Inequality Doesn't Hold

Feedback

• Stars for Rhea participation New!

Homework

• HW0 - getting ready
• HW1- Bayes rule for normally distributed features

References

• "Introduction to Statistical Pattern Recognition" by K. Fukunaga_OldKiwi (This is the main reference)
• "Pattern Classification" by Duda, Hart, and Stork_OldKiwi
• "Pattern Recognition: A Statistical Approach" by P.A. Devijver and J.V. Kittler_OldKiwi
• "Pattern Recognition and Neural Networks" by Brian Ripley_OldKiwi
• "Introduction to Data Mining" by P-N Tan, M. Steinbach and V. Kumar_OldKiwi

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