Stat 399: Transposable data, Professor Art Owen

This web page is a repository for handouts for Stat 399. (taught Spring 1999/2000)

This course looks into statistical problems raised by search engines, recommender systems, and DNA microarrays. The common element in these problems is that the data are given as a matrix with two equally valid interpretations: rows=observations, columns=variables, and vice versa.

We meet Wednesday at 3:15 in Sequoia Hall 200.


Course Announcement: ps , pdf

Schedule: ps , pdf , html


Related research paper (plaid modeling)

Course materials

A course reader is now available from Stanford University Bookstore. It costs $27.50 of which $8.00 covers copyrights for various articles and book parts copied therein.

April 5

Term Document Matrices: ps , pdf , html

Netflix: Home page , Talk


April 12

Non-negative matrix decomp (Kristofer Jennings' talk) ps

Semi-definite matrix decomp (Tao Jiang's talk) ps


April 26

Dyadic Data (Lingyu Chen's talk) ps (7.5Mb)

Fuzzy Clustering (Jorge Picazo's talk) ps (3.3Mb)


May 3

Correspondence analysis (Ji Zhu's talk) ps

Ji's graph1

Ji's graph2

Ji's graph3

Ji's graph4

Rasch Models (Phil Beineke's talk) ps

Rasch Organization


May 10

The Federal Data David Marimont mentioned.

Get a free copy of the Nature issue with the Chromosome 21 article


May 24

Independent Component Analysis (Josh Stuart's talk) ps (2.6Mb)


May 31

SVD based clustering (Alan Gous's talk) ps

Plaid models (Textual part of Art Owen's talk) ps

Image of Eisen data

Image of Idealized rearrangement

Image of Less Ideal situations

Image of Random Plaid layers

Image of Twelve Gene Expression layers

Image of Two Sporulation layers

Layers found in food data


More useful links

UMN's Suggest

Gregory Piatetsky-Shapiro's Knowledge Discovery Nuggets

Collaborative filtering: Survey

Latent Class (Rasch) Model FAQ

Hinrich Shutze's publications

Thomas Hofmann's home page

Weigend, Weiner, and Pedersen's Exploiting Hierarchy paper

More of Andreas Weigend's papers