Delves into the trade-off between model flexibility and bias-variance in error decomposition, polynomial regression, KNN, and the curse of dimensionality.
Introduces the fundamentals of regression in machine learning, covering course logistics, key concepts, and the importance of loss functions in model evaluation.
Explores supervised learning in financial econometrics, covering linear regression, model fitting, potential problems, basis functions, subset selection, cross-validation, regularization, and random forests.