Biostat 212A

syllabus

schedule

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Course Schedule

Tentative (expect frequent updates)

Week Date Time Location Lecture Homework
1 Sat Jan 10 8:30am-11:50pm CHS 13-105 course intro and logistics (ISL 1) [slides: qmd, html] HW1 [qmd, html]
  Sun Jan 11 8:30am-11:50pm CHS 13-105 overview of machine learning (ISL 2) [slides: qmd, html],linear regression (ISL 3) [slides: qmd, html]  
3 Tue Jan 20 5pm-7:30pm Zoom linear regression (ISL 3) continue HW1 Due 1/25/26
4 Tue Jan 27 5pm-7:30pm Zoom classification (ISL 4) [slides: qmd, html], workflow (classifiers with nonlinear features) [slides: qmd, html] HW2 [qmd, html]
5 Tue Feb 3 5pm-7:30pm Zoom resampling method (ISL 5) [slides: qmd, html]  
6 Sat Feb 7 8:30am-11:50pm CHS 33-105 model selection and regularization (ISL 6) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (lasso) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW3 [qmd, html]
  Sun Feb 8 8:30am-11:50pm CHS 33-105 Presentation HW2 Due Date extended to 2/11/26
7 Tue Feb 17 5pm-7:30pm Zoom additive model (ISL 7) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (adding nonlinear features to predictive modeling) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW3 Due 2/22/26
8 Tue Feb 24 5pm-7:30pm Zoom tree-based and ensemble methods (ISL 8) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (pruning a regression tree) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (pruning a classification tree) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW4 [qmd, html]
9 Tue Mar 3 5pm-7:30pm Zoom workflow (random forest for prediction) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (random forest for classification) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (boosting for prediction) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (boosting for classification) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW4 Due 3/10/26
10 Sat Mar 7 5pm-7:30pm CHS 13-105 svm (ISL 9) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (svm with rbf kernel) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (svm with polynomial kernel) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW5 [qmd, html]
  Sun Mar 8 8:30am-11:50pm CHS 43-105 unsupervised learning (ISL 12) [ slides: qmd , html ] , workflow (pca and umap) [ slides: qmd , html ] workflow (clustering) [ slides: qmd , html ] HW5 Due 3/20/26
11 Tue Mar 17. 5pm-7:30pm Zoom multiple testing (ISL 13) [ slides: qmd , html ]