Probability Density Functions

Tutorial Slides by Andrew Moore

A review of a world that you've probably encountered before: real-valued random variables, probability density functions, and how to deal with multivariate (i.e. high dimensional) probablity densities. Here's where you can review things like Expectations, Covariance Matrices, Independence, Marginal Distributions and Conditional Distributions. Once you're happy with this stuff you won't be a data miner, but you'll have the tools to very quickly become one.

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Powerpoint Format: The Powerpoint originals of these slides are freely available to anyone who wishes to use them for their own work, or who wishes to teach using them in an academic institution. Please email Andrew Moore at awm@cs.cmu.edu if you would like him to send them to you. The only restriction is that they are not freely available for use as teaching materials in classes or tutorials outside degree-granting academic institutions.

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