DATA 6100

The course includes an introduction to the methods of modern statistics such as splines, general additive models, principal components analysis, and classifiers. Students learn resampling methods such as bootstrap, cross-validation, boosting, and bagging. Methods of model selection include search-and-score and regularization, and students practice communicating technical ideas to a non-technical audience, including via data visualization.[Restriction(s): Restricted to Master of Data Science students.] [Department(s): Department of Mathematics and Statistics]