STAT406 - "Elements of Statistical Learning"

Repository for STAT406 @ UBC - "Elements of Statistical Learning"

Tentative Weekly Schedule

Weekly reading and other resources

This is a list of strongly recommended pre-class reading. [JWHT13] and [HTF09] indicate reference books (see below).

• Week 1: Sections 2.1, 2.1.1, 2.1.2, 2.1.3, 2.2, 2.2.1 from [JWHT13], 2.4 and 2.6 from [HTF09].
• Week 2: Sections 5.1, 5.1.1, 5.1.2, 5.1.3 from [JWHT13]. Additionally: 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.10 from [HTF09].
• Week 3: TBA.

Prerequisites

• STAT306 (preferred) or CPSC340 (acceptable)

Reference books

• [JWHT13]: James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T. and Tibshirani, R. An Introduction to Statistical Learning. 2013. Springer-Verlag New York

  • Book page, Book PDF

• [HTF09]: Hastie, T., Tibshirani, R. and Friedman, J. The Elements of Statistical Learning. 2009. Second Edition. Springer-Verlag New York

  • Book page, Book PDF

• [MASS]: Venables, W.N. and Ripley, B.D. Modern Applied Statistics with S. 2002. Fourth edition, Springer, New York.

  • Book page, Publisher page