The lecture deals with theoretical and practical concepts from the fields of statistical learning and machine learning. The main focus is on predictive modeling. The weekly tutorial applies these concepts and methods to real examples for illustration purposes. You are expected to work throughthe exercises for the tutorials. They will typically consist of proofs of theory and programming tasks like the implementation of algorithms. Selected topics are: learning theory, summary of simple models: linear / logistic regression, LDA/QDA, KNN, decision trees: CART, support vector machines, ensemble methods: bagging, random forests, boosting model assessment, resampling, model selection variable selection, machine learning in R (mlr package)
Language and slides are in English.


Semester: SoSe 2021