Statistics 697DS - ST-Statistical Methods/DataSci

This course provides an introduction to the statistical techniques that are most applicable to data science. Topics include regression, classification, resampling, linear model selection and regularization, tree-based methods, support vector machines and unsupervised learning. The course includes a computing component using statistical software. Students must have prior experience with a statistical programming language such as R, Python or MATLAB.

Open to Graduate students only. This class meets on the Newton Campus of UMass-Amherst. This course may be taken remotely. Please enroll and contact the instructor if you would like to take the course remotely.

Undergraduates may enroll with the permission of the instructor.

Prerequisites: Probability and Statistics at a calculus-based level such as Stat 607 and Stat 608 (concurrent) or Stat 515 and Stat 516 (concurrent), and knowledge of regression at the level of Stat 525 or Stat 625. Students must have an understanding of linear algebra at the level of Math 235.