Statistical Data Mining
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A short course by B. D. Ripley, Zurich April 3-4, 2003


The software, datasets etc for the presentation is in directories below this
one.  Some pre-compiled functions and some scripts are in a package
SDM* in each directory.  It is assumed that you have run

library(SDM)

before trying the examples.


S+6Win
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For S-PLUS 6.x for Windows.  For each of the *.exe files, run it
and select your S-PLUS library directory to install the library section.

To use ggobi or xgobi you will need to set ggobipath or xgobipath in
your working directory (respectively).


S+6Unix
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SDM.tar.gz is the material for this course: install VR7 first.
VR7.tar.gz is the current MASS, nnet, class and spatial libraries.
fastICA_S_1.0-2.tar.gz
libsvm.tar.gz
MCLUST.tar.gz (`1998' version as used in the notes)
rpart.tar.gz


S+2000
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For S-PLUS 2000.  Only some of the software is available.  To update the MASS
nnet class spatial libraries, run VR6up.exe in the S-PLUS library directory.

You can unzip rpart2.zip in the library directory to install rpart.

This has not been tested recently: we no longer use S-PLUS 2000.


R
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SDM+R.zip is a Windows pre-compiled package.
SDM_0.0.tar.gz is a source package for use under Unix/Linux.



ggobi-with-plugins.exe  is the installer for version 0.99-10 of 
ggobi (http://www.ggobi.org).


Documents
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DM2003.pdf is a PDF version of the notes (and note the copyright
conditions:it is not printable).

LeagueTable.pdf is a write-up of the University league tables datasets.

WhatToUse.pdf is a classification tree of what to use.

Needles.pdf contains many of the OHPs used.

Practicals.pdf is the instructions for using the hands-on material
with S+6 as used in Insightful courses in October 2001.

GGobi-manual.pdf is the current GGobi manual.

Xgobi_guide.pdf is a short guide to XGobi written by BDR.