ORIE 5740 - Statistical Data Mining I

Spring. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Prerequisite: ORIE 3500, MATH 2940 or equivalent, programming experience. Exposure to multiple linear regression and logistic regression strongly recommended. Co-meets with ORIE 4740.

D. Davis.

Examines the statistical aspects of data mining, the effective analysis of large datasets. Covers the process of building and interpreting various statistical models appropriate to such problems arising in scientific and business applications. Topics include naïve Bayes, graphical models, multiple regression, logistic regression, clustering methods and principal component analysis. Assignments are done using one or more statistical computing packages.