STA 363: Statistical Learning

Statistical learning. Learn the theory behind cutting edge statistical and machine learning techniques. Gain hands on experience with real data from a variety of disciplines. The course will focus on the statistical computing language R.


Course info

Teaching team and office hours

Instructor Lucy D'Agostino McGowan     Tuesday 12:30p-1:45p by appointment or via Canvas Chat
Thursday 12:30p-1:45p by appointment or via Canvas Chat
TA Jonathan Trattner Thursday 8:30p-9:30p via Zoom
Math & Stats Center   By appointment

Texts

The main text book is:

An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R James, Witten, Hastie, Tibshirani

A free pdf is available at the website linked above.

We will supplement this with these textbooks freely available online:

Elements of Statistical Learning Hastie, Tibshirani, Friedman
R for Data Science Grolemund, Wickham Springer, 2nd edition, 2017