PRTools Course

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some intro

Background material

• PRTools User Guide

Preparation

• Download PRTools, PRDataSets and PRDataFiles
• Unzip and add them to your personal Matlab directory
• Start Matlab
• Change to your Matlab directory using the cd command
• Add the above toolboxes to the Matlab path by (copy and paste)

addpath(fullfile(pwd,'prtools'))
addpath(fullfile(pwd,'prdatasets'))
addpath(fullfile(pwd,'prdatafiles'))

• Check the availability of PRTools, PRDataSets and PRDataFiles by

which ldc
which iris
which delft_idb

They should all respond with a proper path.

Day 1: Introduction PRTools, Representation and Generalization

1. Introduction PRTools examples
2. Scatterplots
3. Datasets
4. Datafiles
5. Mappings
6. Classifiers

Day 2: Evaluation

1. Evaluation
2. Crossvalidation
3. Learning curves
4. Feature curves

Day 3: More on Representation

1. Dimension reduction
2. Combining classifiers
3. Dissimilarities

Day 4: Applications

1. application 1
2. application 2
3. application 3

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