Academic Catalog

STAT571 DATA MINING AND MACHINE LEARNING

Course Code: 2460571
METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): 3(3-0)
ECTS Credit: 8.0
Department: Statistics
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Study: Graduate
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Offered Semester: Fall and Spring Semesters.

Course Content

Unsupervised learning. Principal component analysis (PCA), clustering methods. Rule learning, association rules. Supervised learning. Multiple linear regression. K-nearest neighbors. Logistic regression. Linear discriminant analysis. Linear model selection. Regularization techniques. Ridge regression, LASSO. Splines. Generalized additive models (GAMs). Tree-based methods. Ensemble learning. Bagging, random forest, boosting. Support vector machines. Neural networks and deep learning. Evaluating the performance of machine learning algorithms. No Free Lunch theorems. Bias-variance decomposition. Bagging. Boosting. Generative adversarial networks (GANs). Autoencoders. Variational Autoencoders.