455fall24

MATH 455 Fall 2023

syllabus and outline

No. date topics suggested problems (SP) notes code quiz problem (QP)  
1 R 8-29 introduction   notes      
2 T 9-3 statistical learning SP1 notes .ipynb QP 1 due Sept 10  
3 R 9-5 linear regression   notes      
4 T 9-10 KNN SP2 notes .ipynb .ipynb QP 2 due Sept 17  
5 R 9-12 evaluation notes      
6 T 9-17 bias-variance tradeoff SP3 notes .ipynb QP 3 due Sept 26  
7 R 9-19 KNN and linear class   notes .ipynb    
8 T 9-24 LDA and QDA notes .ipynb    
9 R 9-26 logistic regression SP4 notes .ipynb QP 4 due Oct 3  
10 T 10-1 variable selection notes .ipynb    
11 R 10-3 ridge regression SP5 notes .ipynb .ipynb QP 5 due Oct 15  
12 T 10-8 LASSO   notes .ipynb .ipynb    
. R 10-10 fall break (no classes)          
13 T 10-15 unsupervised learning   notes ipynb ipynb QP6 due Oct 22  
. R 10-17 midterm          
14 T 10-22 PCA SP6 notes .ipynb QP7 due Oct 29  
15 R 10-24 PCR and k-means notes .ipynb    
16 T 10-29 hierarchical clustering notes .ipynb QP8 due Nov 5  
17 R 10-31 trees notes .ipynb    
. T 11-5 Election Day (no classes)          
18 R 11-7 bagging SP7 notes .ipynb    
19 T 11-12 random forests notes .ipynb QP9 due Nov 19  
20 R 11-14 boosting SP8 notes .ipynb    
21 T 11-19 more boosting notes .ipynb    
22 R 11-21 NNs notes      
23 T 11-26 more NNs notes      
23 R 11-30 thanksgiving (no classes)      
24 T 12-5 presentations  
25 T 12-R presentations