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The Tenth q-bio Summer School - Albuquerque: Computer Lab 13

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Small n, Large p: A primer on modern model selection with application to function estimation

Nick Hengartner Theoretical Biology and Biophysics Theoretical Division Los Alamos National Laboratory

  • A simple introduction to nonparametric function estimation
  • Regularization
  • Ridge regression
  • Basics of Bayes
  • l_0 penalization and a data augmentation algorithm
  • LASSO: l_1 penalization
  • Universal thresholding