PyMVPA Documentation Contents

• Introduction
  • What this Manual is NOT
  • A bit of History
  • Prerequisites
    • Dependencies
    • Strong Recommendations
    • Suggestions
  • Installation
    • Debian
    • Debian backports and inofficial Ubuntu packages
    • Windows
    • OpenSUSE
  • Building from Source
    • Three Ways to Obtain the Sources
    • Build it (General instructions)
    • Build with enabled LIBSVM bindings
    • Alternative build procedure
    • Building on Windows Systems
    • OpenSUSE
  • How to cite PyMVPA
  • Credits

• Overview

• Datasets
  • Data Mapping
  • Data Splitting

• Classifiers
  • Stateful objects
  • Error Calculation
    • Cross-validated Transfer Error
  • Boosted and Multi-class Classifiers
  • Gaussian Process Regression
  • k-Nearest-Neighbour
  • Least Angle Regression
  • Penalized Logistic Regression
  • Ridge Regression
  • Sparse Multinomial Logistic Regression
  • Support Vector Machines
  • Classifiers “Warehouse”

• Measures
  • Sensitivity Measures
    • Basic Sensitivity (and related Measures)
      • ANOVA
      • Linear SVM Weights
      • Noise Perturbation
    • Meta Sensitivity Measures
      • Splitting Measures

• Feature Selection
  • Recursive Feature Elimination
  • Incremental Feature Search

• Analysis Scenarios
  • Searchlight
  • Statistical Testing of classifier-based Analyses

• Miscellaneous
  • Progress Tracking
    • Redirecting Output
    • Verbose Messages
    • Warning Messages
    • Debug Messages
  • Additional Little Helpers
    • Random Number Generation
    • Others
  • FSL Bindings

• Data vs. Dataset: A Glossary

• PyMVPA for Matlab Users

• Frequently Asked Questions
  • I am tired of writing these endless import blocks. Any alternative?
  • I feel like I want to contribute something, do you mind?
  • The manual is quite insufficient. When will you improve it?

• Examples
  • Simple Plotting of Classifier Behavior
  • Easy Searchlight
  • Sensitivity Measure
  • Classification of SVD-mapped Datasets
  • Compare SMLR to Linear SVM Classifier

• License

• PyMVPA Development Changelog
  • Releases

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