PH C240C/STAT C245C| Fall 2021

Biostatistical Methods: Computational Statistics with Application in Biology and Medicine

Class schedule

Date Topic Lecture Notes Reminder
Aug. 25 No Class -
Introduction and Scope
Sep. 01 Introduction and Scope Lecture01
Supervised learning
Sep. 08 GLM/SVM Lecture02
Sep. 15 Empirical Risk Minimization and Kernel Methods Lecture03
Sep. 22 Metric Learning Lecture04 Due of Homework01
Sep. 29 Tree based Methods: CART Lecture05
Oct. 06 Tree based Methods: Bagging and Boosting Lecture06
Semi-supervised learning
Oct. 13 Semi-supervised learning Lecture07
Neural Networks
Oct. 20 Neural Networks Lecture08
A Gentle Introduction to Deep Learning
Oct. 27 A Gentle Introduction to Deep Learning Lecture09
Streaming Data Analyses in Electronic Medical Record Data
Nov. 03 Streaming Data Analyses in Electronic Medical Record Data Lecture11
Causal Inference in Healthcare and Medicine
Nov. 10 Nature's Experiments: Mendelian Randomization Lecture12
Nov. 17 Bayesian Inference and Design of Experiments Lecture13
Nov. 24 No Class(Thanksgiving break)
Dec. 01 Adaptive Clinical Trial and Reinforcement Learning Lecture14
Dec. 08 Final in-class presentation