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Module STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING (R)

Module code: ST864
Credits: 5
Semester: 2
Department: MATHEMATICS AND STATISTICS
International: No
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Module Objective: To develop the students knowledge of Statistical learning techniques and Bayesian methods.

Introduction to statistical learning. Classification: logistic regression, LDA and QDA. Unsupervised learning: PCA, clustering methods. Resampling methods: cross-validation and the bootstrap.Linear Model selection and regularisation. Modelling with regression splines and smoothing splines. Tree-based methods. Support vector machines. Implementation in R.

Lectures and tutorials as for ST464.

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