Stochastic Block ModelCovers the Stochastic Block Model and its application in community detection, exploring its mathematical formulation and challenges.
Maximum Likelihood InferenceExplores maximum likelihood inference, comparing models based on likelihood ratios and demonstrating with a coin example.
Supervised Learning EssentialsIntroduces the basics of supervised learning, focusing on logistic regression, linear classification, and likelihood maximization.
Exponential FamilyCovers the properties of the exponential family and the estimation of parameters.
Precipitation and Hydrologic DesignCovers methods to define the design storm, empirical distribution of rainfall maxima, Gumbel distribution, and intensity-duration-frequency relationships.