Syllabus

This syllabus is under development and is subject to change. Unless otherwise noted, lecture videos will be released at least two days before the corresponding discussion session. Due dates for homework and lab assignments will be announced shortly.

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Week Lecture Date Topic Slides Lecture Discussion Recordings Discussion Materials Lab Homework
1 1 Tuesday 1/19/21

Course Overview, Making Decisions Under Uncertainty

Videos Video
2 Thursday 1/21/21

Binary Decision-Making

Videos Video
2 3 Tuesday 1/26/21

P-Values and Multiple Hypothesis Testing

Videos Video
4 Thursday 1/28/21

Online False Discovery Rate Control & ROC curves

Videos Video
3 5 Tuesday 2/2/21

Frequentist vs. Bayesian Decision-Making

Videos Video
6 Thursday 2/4/21

Overview of Bayesian Modeling

Videos Video
4 7 Tuesday 2/9/21

Graphical Models

Videos Video
8 Thursday 2/11/21

Rejection Sampling and Markov Chains

Videos
5 9 Tuesday 2/16/21

Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Gibbs Sampling

Videos
10 Thursday 2/18/21

Regression and GLMs

Videos
6 11 Tuesday 2/23/21

Model checking for GLMs

Videos
12 Thursday 2/25/21

Uncertainty quantification for GLMs

Videos
7 Tuesday 3/2/21

Midterm 1

13 Thursday 3/4/21

Causal Inference I, Problems with association

Videos
8 14 Tuesday 3/9/21

Causal Inference II, Randomized experiments

Videos
15 Thursday 3/11/21

Causal Inference III, Observational studies

Videos
9 16 Tuesday 3/16/21

Causal Inference IV, Instrumental variables

Videos
17 Thursday 3/18/21

Concentration inequalities

Videos
10 18 Tuesday 3/30/21

Bandits I

Videos
19 Thursday 4/1/21

Bandits II

Videos
11 20 Tuesday 4/6/21

Nonparametric Methods and Neural Networks

Videos
21 Thursday 4/8/21

Neural Networks and Interpretability

Videos
12 Tuesday 4/13/21

Midterm 2 Review

Thursday 4/15/21

Midterm 2

13 22 Tuesday 4/20/21

Reinforcement Learning

Videos
23 Thursday 4/22/21

Robustness and generalization

Videos
14 24 Tuesday 4/27/21

Differential Privacy

Videos
25 Thursday 4/29/21

Matching Markets and Game Theory / Course Wrap-up