Lectures:

EnsembleMethods.pdf     ClassImbalanceMulticlass.pdf        chap6_basic_association_analysis.pdf

 Reference Material: Papers

Helpful Book on Ensemble Methods -

Seni, Giovanni and Elder, John, Ensemble Methods in Data Mining, Morgan & Claypool, 2010

Here's an amazon link to the book:

http://www.amazon.com/Ensemble-Methods-Data-Mining-Predictions/dp/1608452840/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1287690908&sr=8-1

Ensemble Methods in Data Mining: Improving Accuracy Through Combining Predictions (Synthesis Lectures on Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery)

Examples:

Finish Random Forest on Sonar Data:  AdaBoostRandomForestSonar.R   

Create a ROC curve from Example in Text  ROC.R    

ROC for the Sonar Data   ROCSonar.R

Multiclass Example (Iris Data)  IrisDataMulticlass.R

Data Files:

The Wine Data Set and the Iris Data Set are on UC Irvine's database web site

Sonar Data Sets:  sonar_test.csv   sonar_train.csv   irisdata.csv

Homework:  Homework06.doc    Homework06.pdf