Lecture Notes ST4240: Data Mining

Syllabus

Chapter 0: Linear regression with new problems

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Chapter 1: Kernel smoothing

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 4 Part 5

Chapter 2: Semiparametric models (I)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 4 Part 5

Part 6

Chapter 3: Semiparametric models (II)

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Chapter 4: Classification and related topics

Part 1 Part 2 Part 3

Part 4 Part 5

Revision New!

Suggested solution to Midterm test

Course Project

Tutorial

Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3 Tutorial 4

Tutorial 5 Tutorial 6 Tutorial 7 Tutorial 8

Tutorial 9 Tutorial 10 Tutorial 11 New!

Suggested solutions

Tutorial 1 Tutorial 2 Tutorial 3 Tutorial 4

Tutorial 5 Tutorial 6 Tutorial 7 Tutorial 8

Tutorial 9 Tutorial 10 Midterm test Tutorial 11 New!

Agree or Disagree

"All models are wrong but some are useful" --George EP Box (statistician)

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics" --Benjamin Disraeli (politician)

"The quiet statisticians have changed our world--not by discovering new facts or technical developments, but by changing the ways we reason, experiment and form our opinions about it."--Stephen Hawking (astrophysicist)