Statistical Learning

Catalog description

This course is directed towards advanced undergraduates or master's students in statistical or related quantitative fields. The focus of the course is an accessible overview of the field of statistical learning and provide the students with valuable hands-on experience by illustrating how to implement each of the statistical learning methods using R or other statistical programming language. Topics covered include: regression techniques, classification methods, linear model selection and regularization, unsupervised learning, and more.