ORIE 4740 Statistical Data Mining I
Fall. 4 credits. Prerequisites: ORIE 3500 and MATH 2940 or equivalent; programming experience. Exposure to multiple linear regression and logistic regression strongly recommended..
Examines the statistical aspects of data mining, the effective analysis of large datasets. The first half of the course covers the process of building and interpreting statistical models in a variety of settings including multiple regression and logistic regression. The second half connects these ideas to techniques being developed to handle the large datasets that are now routinely encountered in scientific and business applications. Assignments are done using one or more statistical computing packages.