Decision Trees and BoostingExplores decision trees in machine learning, their flexibility, impurity criteria, and introduces boosting methods like Adaboost.
Ensemble Methods: Random ForestExplores random forests as a powerful ensemble method for classification, discussing bagging, stacking, boosting, and sampling strategies.
Nonlinear Supervised LearningExplores the inductive bias of different nonlinear supervised learning methods and the challenges of hyper-parameter tuning.
Decision Trees: ClassificationIntroduces decision trees for classification, covering entropy, split quality, Gini index, advantages, disadvantages, and the random forest classifier.