04/08/2019: HW3 posted, due date April 17.
03/09/2019: HW2 posted, due date April 3.
02/24/2019: Midterm is on March 20 (open book)
02/24/2019: No class on March 13 (Spring Break)
02/24/2019: H1 Due date is March 6
10/10/2018: Check back regularly for announcements
10/10/2018: First Class is on January 23
Lecture Notes: Will be made available one-day in advance on Bb
Instructor: Vadim Sokolov
Office: Engineering Building, Room 2242
vsokolov(at)gmu.edu
Tel: 703-993-4533
TA: TBA
Vadim Sokolov: Wed 2:30-4:30pm (at Engineering 2242)
Location: Planetary Hall 206
Times: 4:30-7:10pm on Wednesday
Grade composition: Grade based on participation in class, in-class midterm, homework assignments, and final project.
Diez, Barr and Cetinkaya-Rundel OpenIntro Statistics, OpenIntro, 2015
James, Witten, Hastie and Tibshirani, An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R, Springer, 2009.
Additional reading: Data Science Reading List
Airbnb (Random Forest)
Facebook (Decision trees and logistic regrsssion)
Youtube (deep learning)
Uber (time series)