Multivariate Methods for the Analysis of Microarray Gene-Expression Data with Applications to Cancer Diagnostics. The project will benefit the Australian Society as a whole by developing statistical methodology for the analysis of high-throughput data. In particular, it will develop a novel and easily implemented model for the analysis of correlated and structured data that may be of high dimension. It thus has wide applicability to improving the quality and validity of applied research in most ....Multivariate Methods for the Analysis of Microarray Gene-Expression Data with Applications to Cancer Diagnostics. The project will benefit the Australian Society as a whole by developing statistical methodology for the analysis of high-throughput data. In particular, it will develop a novel and easily implemented model for the analysis of correlated and structured data that may be of high dimension. It thus has wide applicability to improving the quality and validity of applied research in most industries in Australia. More specifically, it is to be applied here to the diagnosis and prognosis of ovarian cancer. This cross-disciplinary project will strengthen Australian researchers' capacity and capability of participating in cutting-edge DNA microarray research.
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Privacy Preserving Data Mining as Autonomous Data Analysis Expands into Safeguarding from Threats like Crime and Terrorism. In a world characterized by digitally coded data, Data Mining allows automatic exploration of huge numbers of personal records for target marketing, as well as demographic, medical and criminal research. Investigations into terrorist attacks use this technology, but a balance with privacy protection is necessary. Even if names and unique identifiers are removed, computer me ....Privacy Preserving Data Mining as Autonomous Data Analysis Expands into Safeguarding from Threats like Crime and Terrorism. In a world characterized by digitally coded data, Data Mining allows automatic exploration of huge numbers of personal records for target marketing, as well as demographic, medical and criminal research. Investigations into terrorist attacks use this technology, but a balance with privacy protection is necessary. Even if names and unique identifiers are removed, computer methods can be used to infer confidential information about individuals. This project develops new techniques to ensure privacy and alleviate public concerns such as secondary use of personal data. We shall develop new methods for replacing original data with data that exhibits approximately the same patterns, but conceals sensitive data.Read moreRead less
Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models in data mining applications. The extraction of useful information from massively large databases is known as data mining. Its broad but vague goal is to find "interesting structure" in the data, which typically leads to breaking the data into clusters. To this end, we consider the fast, efficient, and automatic learning of finite mixture models in hugh data sets without any prior knowledge of the structure. This probabilistic approach to the discove ....Unsupervised learning of finite mixture models in data mining applications. The extraction of useful information from massively large databases is known as data mining. Its broad but vague goal is to find "interesting structure" in the data, which typically leads to breaking the data into clusters. To this end, we consider the fast, efficient, and automatic learning of finite mixture models in hugh data sets without any prior knowledge of the structure. This probabilistic approach to the discovery and validation of group structure in data mining applications will considerably enhance knowledge management and decision support in science, industry, and government.
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