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Workshop: STATISTICAL LEARNING Teachers: Trevor Hastie (Stanford University, USA) Michael Greenacre (Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain) Dates: 2-3 July 2009, 9:00-18:00 each day Venue: Fundación BBVA Paseo de Recoletos, 10 Madrid. Spain. Cost: 150 euros (100 euros for university staff and students), including all refreshments and lunches on each day as well as all course material. Registration period: 22-26 June 2009. To register, contact: [log in to unmask] This two-day workshop, organized and sponsored by the BBVA Foundation, covers a spectrum of approaches to statistical learning, all of which are very current and are in daily use in industry and science. It is presented by Trevor Hastie, and assisted by Michael Greenacre in the afternoon practical sessions, Computers will be provided for use during the practical sessions and participants are urged to bring their own data sets. A prerequisite of the course is that participants should have a working knowledge of the R computing environment, which will be used in these afternoon sessions. This knowledge should include writing and editing programs, importing data, installing packages, and producing graphical output. Much of the material in the course is extracted from a similar course designed and taught by Trevor Hastie and Rob Tibshirani. Course attendees will benefit by reading the book Elements of Statistical Learning (Hastie, Tibshirani & Friedman, Springer, second edition, 2009). Participation is limited to 35 and is on a first-come first-served basis. For more information, see the brochure about the workshop at http://www.econ.upf.edu/~michael/HastieWorkshop2009.pdf