Lectures:
chap5_alternative_classification.pdf EnsembleMethods.pdf
Reference Material: for the mathematical details of SVM
http://patriciahoffmanphd.com/resources/papers/SVM/SupportVectorJune3.pdf
R-package that includes SVM
Helpful Book on Ensemble Methods -
Seni, Giovanni and Elder, John, Ensemble Methods in Data Mining, Morgan & Claypool, 2010
Here's an amazon link to the book:
Examples:
Support Vector Machine: svm1.R AdaBoostRandomForestSonar.R
Data Files:
The Wine Data Set and the Iris Data Set are on UC Irvine's database web site
Sonar Data Sets: sonar_test.csv sonar_train.csv
Homework: Homework05.doc Homework05.pdf