STA314H1

UTSG

Statistical Methods for Machine Learning I

Statistical methods for supervised and unsupervised learning from data: training error, test error and cross-validation; classification, regression, and logistic regression; principal components analysis; stochastic gradient descent; decision trees and random forests; k-means clustering and nearest neighbour methods. Computational tutorials will support the efficient application of these methods.

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Prereq: STA302H1/ STA302H5/ STAC67H3; CSC108H1/ CSC110Y1/ CSC148H1/ CSCA08H3/ CSCA48H3/ CSCA20H3/ CSC108H5/ CSC148H5; MAT223H1/ MAT224H1/ MAT240H1/ MATA22H3/ MATA23H3/ MAT223H5/ MAT240H5/ MATB24H3/ MAT224H5; ( MAT235H1, MAT236H1)/ MAT235Y1/ MAT237Y1/ MAT257Y1/ ( MATB41H3, MATB42H3)/ ( MAT232H5, MAT236H5)/ ( MAT233H5, MAT236H5)Breadth: Physical & Mathematical UniversesExcl: CSC311H1, CSC311H5, STA314H5, STA315H5, CSCC11H3
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DepartmentSTA
CampusUTSG (St. George)
Level300
Hours36L/12T
BreadthPhysical & Mathematical Universes
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Difficulty: 4/5Usefulness: 5/5

I took STA314 and found the material less complex than expected, but the course was still harder to do well in. There's a larger number of concepts to learn and understand in depth compared to pure math courses. In MAT377 it was easy to prepare by grinding practice questions, whereas STA314 required deeper conceptual understanding. At higher levels, statistics ends up a lot hairier than pure math because it's basically applied math.

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