Week 5

Implementing Machine Learning Algorithms

Lecture Notes

This week we continued with the

updated lecture slides from week 4, with a particular focus on continuous probability densities, and how they represent distributions, and then an illustration of how maximum likelihood and minimum error are the same for a Gaussian density and least squares error function.

Learning Outcomes Week 5

This lecture covers the following learning outcomes

• A review of continuous probability densities.
• A review of the Gaussian density.
• The equivalence between least squares and a Gaussian noise approximation.