From 9eac260c73e9e01dff526643c67db75c0725f989 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Morten Hjorth-Jensen Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 10:00:07 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.md --- README.md | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index d617b8593..823a69b08 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -53,6 +53,8 @@ The following topics will be covered - Basic concepts, expectation values, variance, covariance, correlation functions and errors; - Simpler models, binomial distribution, the Poisson distribution, simple and multivariate normal distributions; - Central elements of Bayesian statistics and modeling; +- Central elements from linear algebra +- Cubic splines and gradient methods for data optimization - Monte Carlo methods, Markov chains, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, ergodicity; - Linear methods for regression and classification; - Estimation of errors using blocking, bootstrapping and jackknife methods; @@ -65,6 +67,8 @@ The following topics will be covered - Gaussian and Dirichlet processes; - Boltzmann machines; - Neural networks; +- Decisions trees and nearest neighbor algorithms +- Support vector machines - Genetic algorithms. All the above topics will be supported by examples, hands-on exercises and project work.