Semester Spring 2026
Time & Days MW 10:30AM - 11:45AM
Location E2-2 1122
Instructor Kihyuk Hong (E2-2 #3104)
Office Hours Thursdays 2:00PM - 3:00PM (E2-2 #3104)
Email [email protected]
TA Jinyoung Hong ([email protected])
Lecture Note Lecture Note (Last updated: April 8, 2026 3:44 PM (GMT+9)). Scribe
Midterm Apr 22 9:00 am - 11:30 am (E2-2 1122)
Final Jun 17 9:00 am - 11:45 am (E2-2 1122)
Textbook (optional) The Elements of Statistical Learning (public pdf)

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Course Description

Course Schedule

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No. Date Lectures 📒 📹 Reading
01 Mar 04 Introduction – Course Overview, Statistical Decision Theory ✏️ ▶️
02 Mar 09 Least Squares 1 – Least Squares Method. Projection Perspective. ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.2
03 Mar 11 Least Squares 2 – Orthogonal Matrix. SVD perspective of LS. ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.2
04 Mar 16 Least Squares 3 – First and Second moments of $\hat\beta$, $\hat{y}$, RSS. ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.2
05 Mar 18 Inference 1 – Gauss-Markov thm. Distributions of $\hat\beta$, $\hat{y}$, RSS. ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.2
06 Mar 23 **Inference 2** – Linear Contrasts, Multiple Contrasts, full/sub models ✏️ ▶️
07 Mar 25 Inference 3 – ANOVA, two-way ANOVA, Generalized LS ✏️ ▶️
08 Mar 30 Model Selection 1 – Bias Variance Tradeoff, Ridge regression ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.4.1, 7.3
09 Apr 01 Model Selection 2 – Cross Validation ✏️ ESL 7.10
10 Apr 06 Model Selection 3 – Leave One Out Cross Validation, Lasso ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.3, 3.4.2-3
11 Apr 08 Dimension Reduction 1 – Principal Component Regression ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.5.1
12 Apr 13 Dimension Reduction 2 – Partial Least Squares ✏️ ▶️ ESL 3.5.2
Apr 15 Practice Session
Apr 22 Midterm exam 9:00 am - 11:30 am
13 Apr 27 Generalized Linear Model 1 – Exponential Family
14 Apr 29 Generalized Linear Model 2 – Maximum Likelihood Estimation, Inference
15 May 4 Generalized Linear Model 3
16 May 6 Basis Expansion 1 – Basis Expansion, Reproducing Kernel Hilbert Space
17 May 11 Basis Expansion 2 – Kernel Regression, Smoothing Splines
18 May 13
19 May 18 Support Vector Regression 1
20 May 20 Support Vector Regression 2
21 May 27 Bootstrapping 1
22 Jun 1 Bootstrapping 2
23 Jun 3 Random Features ?
24 Jun 8 Neural Network ?
Jun 10 Review
Jun 17 Final exam 9:00 am - 11:45 am