Statistical Learning
Week 1
Monday
No class
Wednesday
- Course Logistics
- Guess My Age
- For next time:
- Sign up for slack group
- Set up github account
- Read p. 1 - 14
Week 2
Monday
- Github portfolios
- Estimating f
- For next time:
- Read p 15 - 41
- Problem Set 1 due beginning of next class
Wednesday
- Decomposing MSE
- Bias - Variance Tradeoff
- If time: start Lab 1
- For next time:
- Read p 59 - 81
- Lab 1 due by start of next class
Week 3
Monday
- k-nearest neighbors (KNN)
- Linear Regression
- For next time:
- Read p 82 - 92
- Lab 2 due at beginning of class next Monday
Wednesday
- Extending the linear model
- For next time:
- Read p 92 - 109
- Finish Lab 2
Week 4
Monday
- Review MSE for KNN (from Lab 2)
- Geometry of MLR (housing prices activity)
- Assesssing Model Fit
- For next time:
- Work on Lab 3
Wednesday
- Diagnostics
- Model Validity
- Outliers
- Transformations
- Multicollinearity
- For next time:
- Lab 3 due Friday at noon
Week 5
Monday
- Regression Competition Results
- Automated Model Selection
- For next time:
- Revise
lab-03.Rmd
according to Activity at end of slides - Read p. 203 - 227
- Revise
Wednesday
- Penalized Regression
- Ridge
- Lasso
- For next time:
- Lab 4
Week 6
Monday
- Classification
- KNN
- Logistic Regression
- For next time:
- Read p. 127 - 149
Wednesday
- Discriminant Analysis
- For next time:
- Lab 5 due Wednesday
- Read p. 149 - 154
Week 7
Monday
- Classification Errors
- Extending Discriminant Analysis
- For next time:
- Lab 5 due
- Study!
Wednesday
- Midterm I
Week 8
Monday
- Resampling
- Validation sets
- Leave-one-out CV
- k-fold CV
- For next time:
- Read p. 175-197
Wednesday
- Bootstrap
Week 9
Monday
- Regression Trees
- For next time:
- Read p. 303-321
Wednesday
- Classification Trees
- For next time:
- Read p. 321-324
- Group Proposals due 11:59 pm Thursday
Week 10
Monday
- Collaborating with GitHub
- Empowering the Tree
- Bagging
- Variable Importance
- Random Forests
- For next time:
- Read p. 321-324
- Write out answers to reading questions for Breiman (see slides)
Wednesday
- Empowering the Tree
- Boosting (by hand)
- Discussion of "Two Cultures"