School and Workshop on Classification and Regression Trees
(10 - 26 March 2014)

Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries

 

Organizing Committee

 

• Wei-Yin Loh (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• Probal Chaudhuri (Indian Statistical Institute)
• Ben Haaland (Duke-NUS Medical School)
• Tao Yu (National University of Singapore)

 

Visitors and Participants

 

• Overseas visitors
• Local visitors
• Graduate students
• Registered local participants

 

Overview

 

Classification and regression trees are an integral part of the toolbox of data mining, machine learning, and statistics. The year 2013 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of the first journal article on the subject. New techniques have added capabilities that far surpass the early methods. Modern classification trees can partition the data with linear splits on subsets of variables and fit nearest-neighbor, kernel-density, and other models in the partitions. Regression trees can fit almost every kind of traditional statistical model, including least-squares, quantile, logistic, Poisson and proportional hazards models, as well as models for censored, longitudinal and multi-response data. Availability of free software has played a significant role in helping the techniques gain acceptance and popularity in the broader scientific community. The purpose of the workshop is to bring together current experts in the field to discuss recent developments and generate ideas for future research. The purpose of the school is to introduce the subject to other researchers and practitioners who are interested to learn the techniques.

Activities

• School (10 - 19 Mar 2014): Professor Wei-Yin Loh will give a tutorial spread over four days (11, 13, 17 and 19).
  Outline of Lectures for School on Classification and Regression Trees
  Day 1: Grand tour of examples and introduction to decision tree methods
  Day 2: Classification tree algorithms
  Day 3: Basic regression tree algorithms
  Day 4: Advanced regression tree algorithms


• Workshop (20 - 26 Mar 2014): This is a research conference consisting of talks by international experts followed by general discussions each day.
  
  
• Public Lecture

  Date:	Thursday, 20 March 2014
  Venue:	LT31, Block S16, Level 3, Faculty of Science, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546
  6:30pm - 7:30pm	Shape of the Earth, Motion of the Planets and the Method of Least Squares Probal Chaudhuri, Indian Statistical Institute, India

 

Students and researchers who are interested in attending these activities are requested to complete the online registration form.

The following do not need to register:

• Those invited to participate.
• Those applying for financial support.

 

Venue

 

• IMS Auditorium
  

 

Enquiries

 

For general enquiries, please email us at ims(AT)nus.edu.sg.

For enquiries on scientific aspects of the program, please email Wei-Yin Loh at loh(AT)stat.wisc.edu.

 

Organizing Committee · Visitors and Participants · Overview · Activities · Venue · Enquiries