Calendar

Date Week Topic Notes Due
2026-08-25 1 Welcome + Introduction Syllabus | Server Instructions (html) | Notes (html)
2026-08-27 1 Statistical Learning Notes (html) Lab | Lab Script
2026-09-01 2 Linear Regression Notes (html) Lab | Lab Script
2026-09-03 2 Linear Regression Homework 1 – ggplot2
2026-09-08 3 KNN + Classification Notes (html)
2026-09-10 3 Logistic Regression Homework 2 – Regression
2026-09-15 4 LDA Homework 3 – Polynomial Regression
2026-09-17 4 QDA, KNN Lab | Lab Script
2026-09-22 5 Model Assessment Notes (html) Homework 4 – Classification
2026-09-24 5 Cross Validation
2026-09-29 6 Cross Validation
2026-10-01 6 Cross Validation Lab | Lab Script
2026-10-06 7 GitHub + Project Info Notes (html) Homework 5 – Cross Validation
2026-10-08 7 Guest Lecture
2026-10-13 8 Exam Review
2026-10-15 8 Midterm Exam
2026-10-20 9 Model Selection + Shrinkage Notes (html)
2026-10-22 9 Dimension Reduction Lab | Lab Script
2026-10-27 10 PCR & PLS Homework 6 – Regularization and Model Selection
2026-10-29 10 Moving Beyond Linearity + Regression Splines Notes (html) Lab | Lab Script
2026-11-03 11 GAMs Homework 7 – Dimension Reduction
2026-11-05 11 Tree-Based Methods Notes (html) Lab | Lab Script
2026-11-10 12 Bagging, Random Forests, and Boosting Homework 8 – Non-linear Models
2026-11-12 12 Bagging + Boosting + Random Forests Lab | Lab Script
2026-11-17 13 SVM Notes (html) Homework 9 –Tree-Based Models
2026-11-19 13 SVM
2026-11-24 14 Thanksgiving Break
2026-11-26 14 Thanksgiving Break
2026-12-01 15 Unsupervised Learning Notes (html) Homework 10 – Support Vector Machines | Lab | Lab Script
2026-12-03 15 Unsupervised Learning
2026-12-08 16 Project Presentations
2026-12-10 16 Project Presentations