| Detailed information | 
                    
                                
                    
                      | Original study plan | 
                      Bachelor's programme Bioinformatics 2013W | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Objectives | 
                       This practical course complements the lecture "Machine Learning: Supervised Techniques" and aims at practicing the concepts and methods acquired in the lecture.
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                      | Subject | 
                      - Basics of classification and regression
 - Evaluation of machine learning results (confusion matrices, ROC)
 - Under- and overfitting / bias and variance
 - Cross-validation and hyperparameter selection
 - Logistic regression
 - Support vector machines and kernels
 - Neural networks and deep networks
 - Time series (sequence) analysis
 - Bagging and boosting
 - Feature selection and feature construction
 
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                      | Criteria for evaluation | 
                      Marking is based on homework
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                      | Methods | 
                      Students are given assignments in 1-2 week intervals. Homework must be handed in. Results are to be presented and discussed in the course.
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                      | Language | 
                      English | 
                    
                      
                    
                      | Study material | 
                      Assignments and homework submissions are managed via JKU Moodle.
Where necessary, complimentary course material is provided for download.
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                      | Changing subject? | 
                      No | 
                    
                                        
                      | Corresponding lecture | 
                      in collaboration with 875BIN2MUTU13: UE Machine Learning: Unsupervised Techniques (1,5 ECTS) equivalent to 875BIN2TMLU12: UE Theoretical Bioinformatics and Machine Learning (3 ECTS) -or- BIMPHUEBIN2: UE Bioinformatik II: Theoretische Bioinformatik und Maschinelles Lernen (3 ECTS) 
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