Course Information
Course title
Introduction to Statistical Learning 
Semester
109-2 
Designated for
COLLEGE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES  GRADUATE INSTITUTE OF POLITICAL SCIENCE  
Instructor
HUAN-KAI TSENG 
Curriculum Number
PS5696 
Curriculum Identity Number
322EU2320 
Class
 
Credits
2.0 
Full/Half
Yr.
Half 
Required/
Elective
Elective 
Time
Tuesday 8,9,10(15:30~18:20) 
Remarks
Restriction: juniors and beyond
The upper limit of the number of students: 30.
The upper limit of the number of non-majors: 10. 
Course
Website
https://www.dropbox.com/sh/qcq5ddmf46xu20l/AACXG9ul5dcHMzQE0tjiEUA1a?dl=0 
Course introduction video
 
Table of Core Capabilities and Curriculum Planning
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Course Description

 

Course Objective
 
Course Requirement
 
Student Workload (expected study time outside of class per week)
 
Office Hours
Appointment required. Note: By appointment 
Designated reading
 
References
 
Grading
   
Progress
Week
Date
Topic
Week 1
2/23  Introduction 
Week 2
3/2  Regression Methods I 
Week 3
3/9  Regression Methods II 
Week 4
3/16  Dimensionality and Preprocessing 
Week 5
3/23  Nonlinear Regression I 
Week 6
3/30  Nonlinear Regression II 
Week 7
4/6  No Class 
Week 8
4/13  Statistical Learning I 
Week 9
4/20  Statistical Learning II 
Week 10
4/27  Short Film and Term Project Q & A 
Week 11
5/4  Statistical Learning III 
Week 12
5/11  Dimensionality Reduction and Prediction Accuracy 
Week 13
5/18  Feature Engineering 
Week 14
5/25  Resampling Methods 
Week 15
6/1  Text mining 
Week 16
6/8  Drawing Inference from Text Data 
Week 17
6/15  Course wrap-up (or Social Network Analysis (TBD)) 
Week 18
6/22  Final (no lecture, no class)