Course level

Undergraduate

Faculty

Science

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, 2024 (22/07/2024 - 18/11/2024) 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.

Archived offerings

Course offerings Location Mode Course Profile
Semester 2, 2023 (24/07/2023 - 18/11/2023) St Lucia In Person Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2022 (25/07/2022 - 19/11/2022) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2021 (26/07/2021 - 20/11/2021) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) External External Course Profile
Semester 2, 2020 (03/08/2020 - 21/11/2020) St Lucia Flexible Delivery Course Profile
Semester 2, 2018 (23/07/2018 - 17/11/2018) St Lucia Internal Course Profile
Semester 2, 2016 (25/07/2016 - 19/11/2016) St Lucia Internal Course Profile