Short course: Statistical Learning and Data Mining IV, Palo Alto, Apr 6-7

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This new two-day course gives a detailed and modern overview of statistical models used by data scientists for prediction and inference, with emphasis on tools useful for tackling modern-day data analysis problems.Statistical Learning and Data Mining IVState-of-the-Art Statistical Methods for Data Science, including sparse models and deep learningby Trevor Hastie and Robert Tibshirani,Stanford UniversitySheraton Hotel, Palo Alto, CAApril 6-7, 2017This new two-day coursegives a detailed and modern overview of statistical models used by data scientists for prediction and inference. With the rapid developments in internet technology, genomics, financial risk modeling, and other high-tech industries, we rely increasingly more on data analysis and statistical models to exploit the vast amounts of data at our fingertips.In this course we emphasize the tools useful for tackling modern-day data analysis problems. Many of these are essential building blocks, but we also include techniques at t…