271A - Statistical Learning I

 

This course provides an introduction to pattern recognition and statistical learning. Topics covered include: Bayesian decision theory; parameter estimation; maximum likelihood; the bias-variance trade-off; Bayesian parameter estimation; the predictive distribution; conjugate and non-informative priors; dimensionality and dimensionality reduction; principal component analysis; Fisher's linear discriminant analysis; density estimation: parametric vs. kernel-based methods; mixture models; expectation-maximization; applications.