STAT 665

STAT 365/665, Data Mining and Machine Learning

Spring 2010

 

Instructor: Harrison H. Zhou

Email: huibin.zhou@yale.edu

 

TA: Peisi Yan
Email: peisi.yan@yale.edu

 

 

Class Time: Monday and Wednesday11:35-12:50PM in Room 107, 24 Hillhouse Ave (Statistics department building)

 

Course Description: Techniques for data mining and machine learning are covered from both a statistical and a computational perspective, including support vector machines, bagging, boosting, neural networks, and other nonlinear and nonparametric regression methods. The course will give the basic ideas and intuition behind these methods, a more formal understanding of how and why they work, and opportunities to experiment with machine learning algorithms and apply them to data.

 

Textbook: 

The Element of Statistical Learning by Hastie, Tibshirani and Friedman (online version available)

Syllabus

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