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A Short Introduction to Boosting

Boosting is a general method for improving the accuracy of any given learning algorithm. This short overview paper introduces the boosting algorithm AdaBoost, and explains the underlying theory of boosting, including an explanation of why boosting often does not suffer from overfitting as well as boosting’s relationship to support-vector machines. Some examples of recent applications of boostin...

A Short Introduction to WinBUGS

1 Why Bayesian analysis using MCMC is good for you 1. Has a very solid decision-theoretical framework 2. It is intuitive: a. Combines the prior distribution (prior beliefs and/or experience) with the likelihood (experiment) to obtain the posterior distribution (accumulated information). b. In this context knowledge is equivalent to distribution and knowledge precision can be quantified by the p...

A short introduction to METAPOST

METAPOST is a program strongly related to Knuth’s orginal METAFONT. It uses nearly the same graphics language and syntax, but instead of bitmap fonts it produces PostScript output. So it can be used to create high quality graphics. In METAPOST, points and paths may be described by a set of linear equations that are solved by the program. Thus, METAPOST becomes unique among other tools like PSTr...