Corresponding Book Chapters

Mapping the recommended textbook chapters to the major course topics are as follows:

 

Topic

Alpaydin 2014
Chapter

Murphy 2012
Chapter

Shwartz/David 2014
Chapter

Introduction 1 1  1
Probability Theory - 2  -
Theory of Learning 2 6 2, 3, 5, 6
MLE and MAP 4 3 24
Classification by Bayes 3, 4 3 24
KNN and Decision Tree 8, 9 16 18, 19
Linear Regression - 7 9
Logistic Regression, SVM  10, 13 8, 14 9, 15
Dimensionality Reduction 6 12 23
Neural Networks 11, 12 28 20
Clustering 7 25 22
Performance Improvement 17 16 10