Academic Catalog

STAT433 STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING

Course Code: 2460433
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 4(3-2)
ECTS Credit: 6.0
Department: Statistics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: Prof.Dr. CEYLAN YOZGATLIGÝL
Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.
Prerequisite: Set 1: 2460411
The course set above should be completed before taking STAT433 STATISTICAL MACHINE LEARNING.

Course Content

Regression and prediction, optimization, regularization (Ridge regression and LASSO), neural networks and deep learning, classification, kernel methods and support vector machines, decision trees, bagging and random forest, boosting algorithms, principal component regression, unsupervised deep learning. Applying the methods to real data.