Subject:
Statistics
Credit units:
3
Offered:
Either Term 1 or Term 2
Weekly hours: 3 Lecture hours and 1.5 Practicum/Lab hours
College:
Arts and Science
Department: Mathematics and Statistics
Description
Based on a foundation of mathematical and statistical theory, the course covers a series of statistical methods for supervised learning and unsupervised learning, focusing on applications to real data using statistical software. The topics include: resampling methods such as Cross-Validation and Bootstrap; regression and classification including Linear Regression, Logistic Regression, Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA), Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (QDA), K-Nearest Neighbors (KNN); model selection and regularization including Best Set Selection, Lasso, Elastic Net; non-linear models including Generalized Additive Models (GAM); tree-based methods including Decision Trees, Bagging, Random Forest; Support Vector Machines (SVM); dimension reduction and clustering including Principle Component Analysis (PCA), K-Means, Hierarchical Clustering; Ensemble Learning including Boosting, Stacking, Multi-Task Prediction; and an introduction to Deep Learning.
Prerequisite(s): STAT 344.3 or STAT 345.3 or CMPT 317.3 or CMPT 318.3
Note: Students with credit for STAT 498.3 Machine Learning or STAT 847 may not take this course for credit.
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