Introduces the fundamentals of regression in machine learning, covering course logistics, key concepts, and the importance of loss functions in model evaluation.
Introduces linear regression, covering line fitting, training, gradients, and multivariate functions, with practical examples like face completion and age prediction.
Explores linear regression from a statistical inference perspective, covering probabilistic models, ground truth, labels, and maximum likelihood estimators.
Explores supervised learning in financial econometrics, covering linear regression, model fitting, potential problems, basis functions, subset selection, cross-validation, regularization, and random forests.