Statistical Learning
Statistical learning is the statistics side of machine learning, and it has applications many areas, from finance and medicine to handwriting recognition. This course focuses on supervised learning, where a set of training data is used to infer a function that can then be applied to new data.
The course treats basic principles and methods of statistical learning, classification and prediction. As part thereof the following concepts are studied: discriminant analysis, cross validation, regularization through shrinkage and smoothing, decision- and regression trees, and support vector machines and methods of clustering.
You may also be interested in the course MT7039 Unsupervised learning.
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Course structure
The course consists of two modules, theory and hand-in assignments.
Teaching format
Teaching consists of lectures, exercise sessions and supervision in computer rooms.
Assessment
Assessment takes place through a written exam, and written and oral presentation of the hand-in assignments.
Examiner
A list of examiners can be found on
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Schedule
The schedule will be available no later than one month before the start of the course. We do not recommend print-outs as changes can occur. At the start of the course, your department will advise where you can find your schedule during the course. -
Course literature
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