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ECE 271AStatistical Learning I

4 units · ECE · UC San Diego

Bayesian decision theory; parameter estimation; maximum likelihood; the bias-variance trade-off; Bayesian estimation; the predictive distribution; conjugate and noninformative priors; dimensionality and dimensionality reduction; principal component analysis; Fisher’s linear discriminant analysis; density estimation; parametric vs. kernel-based methods; expectation-maximization; applications. Recommended preparation: ECE 109.

Before you enroll

Prerequisites

From the catalog: “graduate standing.”

What it opens up

Courses that list ECE 271A as a prerequisite (7)

  • BENG 285 Statistical Learning in Bioinformatics
  • BNFO 285 Statistical Learning in Bioinformatics
  • ECE 204 Statistical Learning in Bioinformatics
  • ECE 209 Statistical Learning for Biosignal Processing
  • ECE 226 Optimization and Acceleration of Deep Learning on Various Hardware Platforms
  • ECE 271B Statistical Learning II
  • ECE 271C Deep Learning and Applications