Course Catalog - 2013-2014

     

STAT 640 - DATA MINING & STAT LEARNING

Long Title: DATA MINING AND STATISTICAL LEARNING
Department: Statistics
Grade Mode: Standard Letter
Course Type: Lecture
Credit Hours: 3
Prerequisite(s): STAT 410 AND (CAAM 210 OR COMP 140 OR STAT 405)
Description: Survey of ideas, methods, and tools for analyzing large data sets; techniques for searching for unexpected relationships in data. Topics from supervised and unsupervised learning include regression, discriminant analysis, kernels, model selection, bootstrapping, trees, MARS, boosting, classification, clustering, neural networks, SVM, association rules, principal curves, multidimensional scaling, and projection pursuit.
Course URL: http://statistics.rice.edu/feed/Courses.aspx