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STAT-F423

Statistical learning

academic year
2025-2026

ECTS credits

5

Language(s) of instruction

english

Course content

The 'Data Deluge' and 'Big data' world; goals of statistical/machine learning theory; mathematical framework; classification and Support Vector Machines; linear regression problems and high-dimensional statistics (ridge, lasso, etc.); kernel methods; consistency and complexity issues; risk bounds; applications in various fields (economics, finance, computer vision, bioinformatics, etc.)

Objectives (and/or specific learning outcomes)

To provide a mathematical toolkit to deal with large datasets; a first course on statistical/machine learning and high-dimensional data analysis

Teaching methods and learning activities

Oral course (taught in English)

Contribution to the teaching profile

see French version

Other information

Contacts

Christine De Mol

Evaluation

Method(s) of evaluation

  • Oral examination

Oral examination

Oral exam

Language(s) of evaluation

  • english
  • french

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