Learning From Data

Summer Semester 2022 Prof. Dr. Jörg Schäfer & Fatima Sajid Butt

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Fitting Curves, Sampling and Errors
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Fitting Curves
Exercise 1

Write an R or python script that generates M data points of a polynomial of degree N . Plot your
solutions for different values of N and M (using randomly generated or fixed data points).

Exercise 2

Based on the previous exercise, write an R or python script that computes an exact fit of a poly-
nomial of degree N to N − 1 points (xi , yi ). Plot your solutions for N = 1, . . . , 12 using randomly
generated (xi , yi ). (Hint: You can use the proof of lemma 1 of lecture 2.)

Exercise 3

Take two two-dimensional Gaussian distributions with µ1 = (2, 3), µ2 = (−15, −15) and covariance
matrices    
100 36 64 −49
Σ1 = and Σ2 =
36 100 −49 100
(see page 28 of lecture 2).

1. Write R or python code generating N samples of the distributions above

2. Take as a classifier the straight line x2 = 30 − x1 and compute Ein for some random trials.

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