Advanced Statistics (STAT4401)
Information valid for Semester 2, 2024
Course level
Undergraduate
Faculty
School
Mathematics & Physics School
Units
2
Duration
One Semester
Attendance mode
In Person
Class hours
Lecture 3 Hours/ Week
Tutorial 1 Hour/ Week
3L1T
Incompatible
STAT3003, STAT7303, STAT7502
Prerequisite
STAT3001
Assessment methods
Assignments
Course enquiries
Professor Dirk Kroese ()
Current course offerings
Course offerings | Location | Mode | Course Profile |
Semester 2, 2025 (28/07/2025 - 22/11/2025) | St Lucia | In Person | Profile unavailable |
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Course description
The course focuses on the mathematical understanding of machine learning and data science. Topics to be covered in the first half include theoretical frameworks for supervised learning, unsupervised learning, and Bayesian analysis, Akaike and Bayesian Information criteria, tradeoffs in statistical learning, Monte Carlo methods, and principal component analysis. The second half will include the theory of regularization and kernel methods, Gaussian process regression and support vector machines.