2026 Winter

Lecture Notes

Lecture 00: Review on probability and statistics
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Lecture 01: Robust two-sample test
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Lecture 02: CDF and EDF
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Lecture 03: Permutation test
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Lecture 04: Contingency table
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Lecture 05: Survival analysis
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- Major update: Discrete and continuous hazard and Greenwood formula.

Lecture 06: Density estimation
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- Major update: Multivariate KDE, conditional KDE, and sampling from KDE.

Lecture 07: Regression analysis
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- Major update: General basis approach and neural nets.

Lecture 08: Classification
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- Major update: Restructure contents and add a general logistic regression model.

Lecture 09: Empirical risk minimization and concentration
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- Major update: Merge ERM and concentration inequalities.

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