Introduction to Statistical Learning in Social Sciences
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Overview
Subject area
ECON
Catalog Number
3801
Course Title
Introduction to Statistical Learning in Social Sciences
Description
Introduces students to the primary concepts and tools of machine learning that social scientists have started to utilize with the availability of large datasets. Topics include overfitting problem, cross-validation, penalized regression models, classification and regression trees.
Pre- or Corequisite
034397
Liberal Arts
Yes
Department(s)
Credits
Minimum
3
Max
3
Components
Name
Laboratory
Contact Hours
2
Name
Lecture
Contact Hours
2