Syllabus
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| 1 | 1 | Tuesday 01/17/23 |
Course Overview, Making Decisions Under Uncertainty
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| 2 | Thursday 01/19/23 |
Decisions I: Binary Decision-Making
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| 2 | 3 | Tuesday 01/24/23 |
Decisions II: P-Values and Multiple Hypothesis Testing
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| 4 | Thursday 01/26/23 |
Decisions III: Online False Discovery Rate Control & ROC curves
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| 3 | 5 | Tuesday 01/31/23 |
Decisions IV: Frequentist vs. Bayesian Decision-Making
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| 6 | Thursday 02/02/23 |
Bayesian Modeling I: Overview of Bayesian Modeling
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| 4 | 7 | Tuesday 02/07/23 |
Bayesian Modeling II: Graphical Models
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| 8 | Thursday 02/09/23 |
Bayesian Modeling III: Rejection Sampling and Markov Chains
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| 5 | 9 | Tuesday 02/14/23 |
Bayesian Modeling IV: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) and Gibbs Sampling
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| 10 | Thursday 02/16/23 |
GLMs I: Regression and GLMs
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| 6 | 11 | Tuesday 02/21/23 |
GLMs II: Model checking for GLMs
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| 12 | Thursday 02/23/23 |
GLMs III: Uncertainty quantification for GLMs
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| 7 | Tuesday 02/28/23 |
Midterm I (no lecture)
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| 13 | Thursday 03/02/23 |
Nonparametric Methods and Interpretability
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| 8 | 14 | Tuesday 03/07/23 |
Neural Networks and Modeling Summary
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| 15 | Thursday 03/09/23 |
Causal Inference I: Association and Causation
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| 9 | 16 | Tuesday 03/14/23 |
Causal Inference II: Randomized Experiments
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| 17 | Thursday 03/16/23 |
Causal Inference III: Observational Studies
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| 10 | 18 | Tuesday 03/21/23 |
Concentration inequalities
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| 19 | Thursday 03/23/23 |
Bandits I
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| 11 | Tuesday 03/28/23 |
Spring break
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| Thursday 03/30/23 |
Spring break
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| 12 | 20 | Tuesday 04/04/23 |
Bandits II
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| 21 | Thursday 04/06/23 |
Reinforcement Learning 1
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| 13 | 22 | Tuesday 04/11/23 |
Reinforcement Learning 2
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| Thursday 04/13/23 |
Midterm II (no lecture)
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| 14 | 23 | Tuesday 04/18/23 |
Matching Markets
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| 24 | Thursday 04/20/23 |
Differential Privacy
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| 15 | 25 | Tuesday 04/25/23 |
Robustness and generalization
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| 26 | Thursday 04/27/23 |
Course Wrap-up
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