Technology and Innovation

Course Synopses


YCBS 255 : Statistical Machine Learning

Course Description

This course introduces fundamental statistical machine learning concepts and tools using Python. Emphasis is placed on the following subjects: descriptive statistics, statistical distributions, random number generation, basic data visualization; linear regression; basic classification; error estimation: cross-validation, bias-variance trade-off; shrinkage methods; dimension reduction; beyond linearity: smoothing splines, local regression, additive models; tree and ensemble methods; powerful classifiers; unsupervised learning.

Prerequisites

  • NONE

Corequisites

  • NONE

Schedule

This Course was not Offered During Winter 2025 Term

This Course was not Offered During Spring/Summer 2025 Term

The tentative timetable is not yet available for the Fall 2025 Term

The tentative timetable is not yet available for the Winter 2026 Term