Computing Links Software UC Berkeley IST Software Central has commercial software that can be downloaded by on campus individuals. TextMate may be the greatest ...

Writing Writing a good introduction Some commonly mentioned references: William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White, The Elements of Style VinceVu 04 May 2007 ...

On Model Selection Consistency of Elastic Net when p n, Kyle: Last updated May/12/2008 Kyle's Comments Comment 1 ChinghwayLim 12 May 2008

Papers in Progress Asymptotics for some penalized M estimators: the parametric case, by G. Rocha, X. Wang, B. Yu. A path following algorithm for Sparse Pseudo ...

A path following algorithm for Sparse Pseudo Likelihood Inverse Covariance Estimation (SPLICE), by G. Rocha, P. Zhao and B. Yu: Latest version, 2008/05/05 Guilherme ...

glmlasso asymptotics.pdf: Asymptotics for some penalized M estimators: the parametric case, by G. Rocha, X. Wang and B. Yu. Last updated 5/5/2008. Guilherme's Comments ...

Latest edition here. Last updated 5/3/2008. Chinghway's Comments The figures need clearer labelling. For example, in figure 1, I'm not sure what the vertical ...

State Space Models Kunsch, H. (1986): Discrimination Between Monotonic Trend and Long Range Dependence Journal of Applied Probability Akaike, H. and Ishiguro ...

The group recently acquired a Mac Pro. It has a 64 bit Xeon processor with 8 cores running at 2.8GHz. The machine is registered with Apple to Bin. Serial Number ...

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// Professor // Students // Postdocs and Visitors \ // Alumni // Group Photo Professor Bin Yu I enjoy mystery solving no matter ...

Nanofabrication People Ethan Anderes Chinghway Lim Gang yu Liu Bin Yu

Image fMRI VinceVu 21 Jan 2008

// Research Areas // Current Projects // Past Projects Current Projects Anisotropic Ridge Regression for Prediction Covariance Estimation in ...

Semi supervised Linear Regression Projects Natural image Visual cortex fMRI data People Vince Vu Bin Yu Background

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// Research Areas // Current Projects // Past Projects Research Areas Information Theory Model Selection Network Tomography Nonparametric ...

Financial Market State Classification and Prediction People Lisa Borland Ariel Evnine Chinghway Lim Bin Yu

Convex Experts People Pradeep Ravikumar Martin Wainwright Bin Yu Publications

Nonparametric regression Projects Convex Experts People Pradeep Ravikumar Martin Wainwright Bin Yu Background

// Research Areas // Current Projects // Past Projects Past Projects Information Theory and MDL Classification in Remote Sensing for MISR

Random Matrices Data often comes in the form of a matrix, and random matrix theory offers a probabilistic look at such objects. We aim to exploit, and perhaps supplement ...

Articles concerning time to publication: A review times paper by Raymond Carroll on Biometrics (gvrocha, 2007/10/27); GuilhermeRocha 27 Oct 2007

Manifold Learning and Semi supervised Learning Papers R. R. Coifman, S. Lafon, A. B. Lee, M. Maggioni, B. Nadler, F. Warner, and S. W. Zucker, Geometric diffusions ...

CAP: iCAP: grouped selection using the L1 and L\infty norms (download matlab code iCAP.zip); hiCAP: hierarchical selection for trees using the L1 and L\infty ...

Resources on the web: This is a collection of links with tools that may come in handy. A brief description is added. Web publishing Selected Works: this site ...

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!LaTeX and !BibTeX Links !TeX FAQ latexdiff generates a !LaTeX document which shows differences between two useful for tracking revisions. David highly ...

Instructions % specifies comments in !LaTeX. Use this template, fill in your stuff, save it to filename.tex using whatever filename you like and then compile it with ...

Sensor Networks Wireless sensor networks are formed by a set of small devices that, in addition to its sensing equipment, are furnished with a radio for wireless communication ...

Bibliography This is a bibliography for various topics in high dimensional data analysis. Please contribute. LASSO The following paper describes the KKT conditions ...

Slides We have informal presentations during our group meeting to learn about research within and outside of the group. Random Matrices Wigner's Theorem (wigner ...

Time Series Analysis Navigating the huge time series literature can be very intimidating. Below are some useful resources for some specific topics. Anomaly Detection ...

Getting Things Done David Allen authored a book entitled "Getting Things Done", which describes a very useful and straightforward methodology for organizing one's ...

Recommended Reading This is meant to be a page of recommended reading for beginning students. Vince's Recommendations Theoretical A general remark is that our (geometric ...

Zen and Art of Search Engines When trying to find information on the web, there's a lot of different things to get your head around. There are a lot of other guides ...

Research Links Reading Recommended reading for new group members, to get up to speed with the group. A bibliography for various topics in high dimensional ...

Journal Submission Links Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS): LaTeX support Annals of Statistics: preparation, submission Annals of Applied ...

Visualization Links DanD from Ritei Shibata's group. Anthony Unwin's page has some packages, including Mondrian. Comments on Mondrian VinceVu 16 ...

Japanese Text Transliteration Working with data provided by Microsoft, we are working on new statistical exploration and methods for improving ranking of transliteration ...

Using Xgrid The address of the current SCF Xgrid controller is dukas.berkeley.edu. If you are prompted for your password, you should use your SCF password. Xgrid ...

Model Selection Methodology BLASSO Boosted LASSO CAP Composite Absolute Penalties Related Links See also MinimumDescriptionLength.

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Covariance Estimation in Finance Estimation of the covariance matrix of asset returns is one of the most important problems in finance. In particular, the theory ...

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Yu Group Photo 2006 Berkeley, California. October 25, 2006. Back: David Purdy, Jing Lei, Ethan Anderes, Guilherme Rocha. Front: Kei Kobayashi, Nicolai Meinshausen ...

Staying Current with RSS Using RSS RSS is a relatively new technology for syndication. It is frequently used as a method for keeping updated on new postings to websites ...

Anisotropic Ridge Regression for Prediction The classical linear model states that the response variable $Y$ is a linear function of the $p$ dimensional covariate ...

Entropy Estimation Overview Shannon's seminal work on InformationTheory made popular the theoretical quantity known as the entropy \begin{equation} H : \sum ...

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