Note: Due dates of the exams will not move, however the timeline of topics and smaller assignments might be updated throughout the semester.

Date Lesson Slides/Videos Overview Lab AE HW EC Exam
Week 01
Tues, Jan 14 Welcome to Statistical Learning
Thur, Jan 16 Meet the toolkit
Lab 01: Welcome to R!
Week 02
Tues, Jan 21 Trade-offs: Accuracy and interpretability, bias and variance
Thur, Jan 23 Linear Regression and Logistic Regression Review
Week 03
Tues, Jan 28 Bayes' Theorem, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (Part 1)
Tidy data
Data visualization
Thur, Jan 30 Bayes' Theorem, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (Part 2)
Week 04
Tues, Feb 4 Bayes' Theorem, Linear Discriminant Analysis, Quadratic Discriminant Analysis (Part 3)
Lab 02: LDA and QDA
Thur, Feb 6 Cross-validation
Week 05
Tues, Feb 11 Review
Thur, Feb 13 Midterm 01
Week 06
Tues, Feb 18 Midterm 01 Overview
Thur, Feb 20 Lab 03: Cross-validation
Week 07
Tues, Feb 25 Ridge Regression
Thur, Feb 27 The Lasso and Elastic Net
tidymodels
Week 08
Tues, Mar 3 tidymodels (Part 2)
Polynomial Regression and Splines
Thur, Mar 5 Lab 04: High dimensional data
Week 09
Tues, Mar 10 No Class: Spring Break
Thur, Mar 12 No Class: Spring Break
Week 10
Tues, Mar 17 No Class
Thur, Mar 19 No Class
Week 11
Tues, Mar 24 Welcome back!
Lab 05: Non-linear models
Thur, Mar 26 Midterm 02 Review
Week 12
Tues, Mar 31 Midterm 02
Thur, Apr 2 Decision Trees - Regression Trees
Building Regression Trees
Pruning Regression Trees
Regression Trees Example
Week 13
Tues, Apr 7
Plotting Decision Trees
Decision Trees - Classification Trees
Thur, Apr 9 Follow Up
Bagging Decision Trees
Random Forests
Random Forests in R
Week 14
Tues, Apr 14 Boosted Decision Trees: The Algorithm
Boosted Decision Trees: Tuning
Boosted Decision Trees in R
Variable Importance
Thur, Apr 16 Lab 06: Ensemble models
Week 15
Tues, Apr 21 Midterm 03 Review
Optional: Bayes' Theorem and Coronavirus Antibody Testing
Optional: Reading Medical Literature
Thur, Apr 23 Midterm 03 handed out
Week 16
Tues, Apr 28 Midterm 03 due