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Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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Re: Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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I bookmarked three weeks ago (busy with a few other edX and Coursera courses), and the page has a link to a free PDF book "An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R":

Stanford Online: Statistical Learning

https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta...

Quote: "This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The syllabus includes: linear and polynomial regression, logistic regression and linear discriminant analysis; cross-validation and the bootstrap, model selection and regularization methods (ridge and lasso); nonlinear models, splines and generalized additive models; tree-based methods, random forests and boosting; support-vector machines. Some unsupervised learning methods are discussed: principal components and clustering (k-means and hierarchical)."

"This is not a math-heavy class, so we try and describe the methods without heavy reliance on formulas and complex mathematics. We focus on what we consider to be the important elements of modern data analysis. Computing is done in R. There are lectures devoted to R, giving tutorials from the ground up, and progressing with more detailed sessions that implement the techniques in each chapter."

List of courses: https://lagunita.stanford.edu/

Re: Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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Recent CMU alum here ('15). 10-701/702 are the intense higher level courses meant for ML PhD students. If you want something a little less mathematically rigorous and a little more application focused, consider the masters version of the course, 10-601. All if its material is available here online as well [1]. That said, if you are willing to put in the effort and have the mathematical background to tackle 701/702, y…

Well, now we have 10-715 as the ML PhD-level course that corresponds to 701. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10715/

Re: Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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Kevin Murphy - "Machine Learning: A Probabilistic Perspective" is a great (literally - 1000+ pages) textbook that is basically self-contained (pre-reqs: some comfort w. multivariable calculus, linear algebra, basic computer science theory; convex optimization experience a huge plus)

Re: Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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I bookmarked three weeks ago (busy with a few other edX and Coursera courses), and the page has a link to a free PDF book "An Introduction to Statistical Learning, with Applications in R": Stanford Online: Statistical Learning https://lagunita.stanford.edu/courses/HumanitiesSciences/Sta... Quote: "This is an introductory-level course in supervised learning, with a focus on regression and classification methods. The s…

I'm working my way through this right now and highly recommend it. The book is excellent and the professors are personable and genuinely enthusiastic about the subject matter.

Re: Statistical Machine Learning, Spring 2016

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post #9

Recent CMU alum here ('15). 10-701/702 are the intense higher level courses meant for ML PhD students. If you want something a little less mathematically rigorous and a little more application focused, consider the masters version of the course, 10-601. All if its material is available here online as well [1]. That said, if you are willing to put in the effort and have the mathematical background to tackle 701/702, y…

Well, now we have 10-715 as the ML PhD-level course that corresponds to 701. https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~epxing/Class/10715/

Here's a comparison of the courses. Both are aimed at PhD students, one for students in the Machine Learning Department and one for students in other departments (including CS).

Edit: Whoops, forgot the actual link: http://www.ml.cmu.edu/teaching/ml-course-comparison_11.2015....

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