PUBH7475

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining (3 Cr.)

School of Public Health - Adm (11162) TPUB - School of Public Health

PUBH 7475 - Statistical Learning and Data Mining (3 Cr.)

Course description

Various statistical techniques for extracting useful information (i.e., learning) from data. Linear discriminant analysis, tree-structured classifiers, feed-forward neural networks, support vector machines, other nonparametric methods, classifier ensembles, unsupervised learning.

prereq: [[[6450, 6452] or equiv], programming backgroud in [FORTRAN or C/C++ or JAVA or Splus/R]] or instr consent; 2nd yr MS recommended

Minimum credits

3

Maximum credits

3

Is this course repeatable?

No

Grading basis

OPT - Student Option

Lecture

Typically offered term(s)

Periodic Spring