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Description
Computational Statistics Classification: logistic regression, linear and quadratic discriminant analysis; Resampling methods: cross-validation and bootstrap; Linear model selection and regularization: subset selection, shrinkage methods, dimension reduction methods, considerations in high dimensions; Nonlinear regression: polynominal regression, regression splines, smoothing splines, local regression and generalized additive models; Tree-based methods: decision trees, bagging, random forests, and boosting; Support vector machines: maximal margin classifier, support vector classifiers, support vector machines (SVMs), SVMs with more than two classes; Unsupervised learning: principal component analysis, clustering methods. Lectures, 3 hours per week; Lab, 1 hour per week Restriction: open to Data Sciences and Analytics majors only Prerequisite(s): one of STAT 3P82 and STAT 3P86 or STAT (DASA ) 3P87 or permission of the instructor
Prerequisites
- Prerequisite(s): one of STAT 3P82 and STAT 3P86 or STAT (DASA ) 3P87 or permission of the instructor
Conditions and arrangements
- Restriction: open to Data Sciences and Analytics majors only
- Prerequisite(s): one of STAT 3P82 and STAT 3P86 or STAT (DASA ) 3P87 or permission of the instructor
Reference text in its original language
Computational Statistics Classification: logistic regression, linear and quadratic discriminant analysis; Resampling methods: cross-validation and bootstrap; Linear model selection and regularization: subset selection, shrinkage methods, dimension reduction methods, considerations in high dimensions; Nonlinear regression: polynominal regression, regression splines, smoothing splines, local regression and generalized additive models; Tree-based methods: decision trees, bagging, random forests, and boosting; Support vector machines: maximal margin classifier, support vector classifiers, support vector machines (SVMs), SVMs with more than two classes; Unsupervised learning: principal component analysis, clustering methods. Lectures, 3 hours per week; Lab, 1 hour per week Restriction: open to Data Sciences and Analytics majors only Prerequisite(s): one of STAT 3P82 and STAT 3P86 or STAT (DASA ) 3P87 or permission of the instructor
- Prerequisite(s): one of STAT 3P82 and STAT 3P86 or STAT (DASA ) 3P87 or permission of the instructor
- Restriction: open to Data Sciences and Analytics majors only
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