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Educational Session on Machine Learning Methods in Genetic Epidemiology

17th Annual Meeting of the International Genetic Epidemiology Society

The goal of this educational session is to introduce machine learning concepts, methods and software that can be used in genetic association studies.


1:00 - 2:00 An Introduction to Machine Learning
Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College

2:00 - 3:00 Information Theory and Measures of Entropy
Brett Mc Kinney, Ph.D.
University of Alabama Birmingham

3:00 - 3:30 Break

3:30 - 4:30 Decision Trees and Random Forests
Yan Sun, Ph.D.
University of Michigan

4:30 - 5:30 Multifactor Dimensionality Reduction (MDR)
Jason H. Moore, Ph.D.
Dartmouth College


Sunday, September 14, 2008

Hyatt Regency St. Louis Riverfront

Room TBA

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