Week 04

Learning Objectives

• Two different cultures: Statistical inference vs Statistical learning
• Supervised learning as a prediction problem
• Supervised learning workflow in practice
• Regression as a supervised learning problem
• Introduction to scikit-learn API
• Implementing a linear regression model through LinearRegression class
• Evaluating model performance through regression metrics of sklearn.metrics

Lecture Slides

• Lecture slides and lab materials are in a private repo at course GitHub organization. If you are one of the students coming to this class for auditing, please send your GitHub username to me so that I can add you onto the repo.