STAT205: Introduction to Classical Statistical Learning

Introduction to classical statistical inference. Random variables and distributions; types of convergence; central limit theorems; maximum likelihood estimation; Newton-Raphson, Fisher scoring, Expectation-Maximization, and stochastic gradient algorithms; confidence intervals; hypothesis testing; ridge regression, lasso, and elastic net. Prerequisite(s): STAT 203; or STAT 131 and STAT 132. Enrollment is restricted to graduate students; undergraduates may enroll by permission of the instructor if they've completed STAT 131 and STAT 132 (subject to instructor verification). 

5 credits

Year	Fall	Winter	Spring	Summer
2024-25		Section 01 Sangwon Hyun (shyun2)
2020-21		Section 01 Richard Li (zli439)

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Formerly AMS 205

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