Advanced topics, extensions, and new areas or latest developments in machine learning; contemporary topics in and applications to artificial intelligence and data science.
may be taken more than once, provided that the topics are different; topics must be indicated for record purposesÂ
Prereq: Syay 218/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
High dimensional data; high dimensional data visualization; high dimensional data analysis; dimension reduction; pattern search; clustering; applications.
Prereq: Stat 218/223/233/equiv/COI, Stat 217/226/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Classification of nonlinear models; iterative estimation and linear approximation; practical considerations: model specification, starting values, transformations; convergence; multiresponse model; models from differential equations; nonlinear inference regions; measures of nonlinearity; applications.
Prereq: Stat 218/223/233/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Functions of survival time; estimation of survival functions; survival distributions and their applications; distribution fitting and goodness-of-fit tests.
Prereq: Stat 207/222/232/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Principles of data mining; methods of data mining; themes of data mining; applications of data mining in business intelligence.
Prereq: COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Smoothing methods; kernel smoothing; spline smoothing; regression trees; projection pursuit; nonparametric regression; cross-validation; scoring; high dimensional predictors; additive models; backfitting.
Prereq: Stat 207/222/232/equiv/COI, Stat 218/223/233/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Market risk; financial time series; copulas; extreme value theory; credit risk models; operational risks.
Prereq: Stat 218/223/233/equiv/COI, Stat 225/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Bayesian inference; empirical and hierarchical analysis; robustness; numerical procedures.
Prereq: Stat 207/222/232/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Nonstationarity; cointegration; intervention models; State space models; transfer functions; frequency domain; panel data; nonparametric methods for time series; nonparametric prediction; AR-Sieve; block bootstrap.
Prereq: Stat 218/223/233/equiv/COI, Stat 225/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Probability structure of categorical data; modelling count data with heterogeneous mean; models for multinomial responses; postulation, estimation, evaluation of various parametrization of models for categorical data; assessment and handling of overdispersion in count data; clustered categorical data; advanced topics.
Prereq: Stat 207/243/equiv/COI. 3 hours, 3 units
Courses in special fields, new areas or latest developments in Statistics.
may be repeated provided that the topics are different; topics to be indicated for record purposes
Prereq: COI. 3 hours, 3 units