COGS 209. Statistical Machine Learning for Social Sciences (4 units)
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Description
Advanced methods and fundamental principles for learning from data. Emphasis is on foundational methods in supervised and unsupervised machine learning problems, covering trade-offs inherent in model design, training, evaluation, selection, and validation. Students will not receive credit for both COGS 209 and CSS 206. Recommended preparation: introductory statistics and familiarity with scientific programming and analysis software (MATLAB, Python, or R).Prerequisites: graduate standing.
Prerequisite courses
COGS 209 has no prerequisite courses.
Successor courses
No courses have COGS 209 as a prerequisite.