Week 04

Author

Gül İnan

Published

October 11, 2022

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.