CSI 991

Seminar in Computational Statistics:

Links for Classification Codes and Info

Some ICA code which runs on Matlab can be obtained at http://www.cis.hut.fi/projects/ica/fastica/
Both Unix and Windows versions are available, you have to fill out a form to get the software.

XGobi and XGvis will perform projection pursuit and multidimensional scaling. The original version runs in Unix or Linux (requiring X Windows) and can be downloaded from http://www.research.att.com/areas/stat/xgobi/
There is also a Windows version available at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/SWin/xgobi.zip
In order to run this you will need an X Windows emulator; instructions are in the zip file.

And some catchup: Remember PRIM, from back in Chapter 9? (Patient Rule Induction Method, Friedman and Fisher, 1999) Splus code is available at http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/pub/SWin/xgobi.zip

SOME CURRENT AVAILABLE BOOSTING SOFTWARE:

  • AdaBoost, available in Matlab, download from http://www.boosting.org with name and email.
  • BoosTexter, in C object code, from the same site, same requirements.
  • A boosting example applet at http://www.cs.technion.ac.il/~rani/LocBoost/index.html (the site has other interesting software for download as well, in particular a bunch of software labeled as "Matlab classification toolbox")

    Breiman has reports (and some software) on a lot of subjects: bagging, adaptive bagging, randomizing outputs, pseudo-data generation, "born again" trees, "curds and whey", distribution-based trees, "half and half" bagging, arcing, random forests - but does not have any boosting software. His random forest software does work in R but only on a Unix box.