NCHU Course Outline
Course Name (中) 使用R的監督學習方法(7756)
(Eng.) Supervised Learning Methods Using R
Offering Dept Executive Master Program in Big Data
Course Type Elective Credits 3 Teacher 陳齊康
Department Executive Master Program in Big Data / (W)Graduate Language Chinese 英文/EMI Semester 2025-SPRING
Course Description This course covers methods for solving various unconstrained and constrained model optimization problems. Applications and computer implementations are emphasized.
Prerequisites
self-directed learning in the course Y
Relevance of Course Objectives and Core Learning Outcomes(%) Teaching and Assessment Methods for Course Objectives
Course Objectives Competency Indicators Ratio(%) Teaching Methods Assessment Methods
To prepare students for the basic skills of model-based data analysis and R language.
Lecturing
Attendance
Oral Presentation
Assignment
Course Content and Homework/Schedule/Tests Schedule
Week Course Content
Week 1 Getting started with R
Week 2 More tools in R
Week 3 Basic optimization: Least square (LS) regression
Week 4 Multivariate normal distribution (MVN) and maximum likelihood (ML) regression
Week 5 GCV, AIC: Best subset regression;
Week 6 Stepwise regression
Week 7 L2-norm regularized (ridge) regression
Week 8 Adaptive weighted ridge regression
Week 9 L1-norm regularized (LASSO) regression
Week 10 Coordinate descent method for ridge and LASSO regressions regression tree
Week 11 Network estimation (node-wise regressions)
Week 12 Bagged regression trees (random forest)
Week 13 Artificial neural network regression
Week 14 Polynomial regression and basis functions
Week 15 Ridge regression with the (spline) basis expansion
Week 16 Final report
Week 17 Self-learning (Classification problems and methods)
Week 18 Self-learning (Classification problems and methods)
Evaluation
Attendance: 50%
Report: 40%
Self-learning: 10%
The grade system is tentative and subject to modification.
Textbook & other References
The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani and Jerome Friedman
Teaching Aids & Teacher's Website

Office Hours
1:00-2:00 PM Friday
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