Statistical Machine Learning for Data Scientists

Bias-variance trade-off; training versus test error; overfitting; cross-validation; subset selection methods; regularized approaches for linear/logistic regression: ridge and lasso; non-parametric regression: trees, bagging, random forests; local regression and splines; generalized additive models; support vector machines; k-means and hierarchical clustering; principal components analysis.

Prefix
BIOST
Number
558
Credits
5
Variable Credit?
No
Credit/no-credit only?
No
Joint Class?
Yes
With
DATA 558/STAT 558
Offered
Spring