STA314H1: Statistical Methods for Machine Learning I

36L/12T

Statistical methods for supervised and unsupervised learning from data: training error, test error and cross-validation; classification, regression, and logistic regression; principal components analysis; stochastic gradient descent; decision trees and random forests; k-means clustering and nearest neighbour methods. Computational tutorials will support the efficient application of these methods.

STA302H1(70%)/ STA302H5(70%)/ STAC67H3(70%); CSC108H1/ CSC110Y1/ CSC120H1/ CSC148H1/ CSCA08H3/ CSCA48H3/ CSCA20H3/ CSC108H5/ CSC148H5; MAT223H1(70%)/ MAT224H1(70%)/ MAT240H1(67%)/ MATA22H3(70%)/ MATA23H3(70%)/ MAT223H5(70%)/ MAT240H5(67%)/ MATB24H3(67%)/ MAT224H5(67%); MAT235Y1(70%)/ MAT237Y1(67%)/ MAT257Y1(63%)/ ( MATB41H3(70%), MATB42H3(70%))/ ( MAT232H5(70%), MAT236H5(70%))/ ( MAT233H5(70%), MAT236H5(70%)
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