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36-350 Data Mining

Units: 9.0
Department: Statistics
Prerequisites: 36-226 or 36-310 or 36-626
Related URLs: http://www.stat.cmu.edu/www/cmu-stats/

The course will focus on how to construct hypotheses from a large data set and confirm them statistically. Exploratory methods include discriminant analysis, principal component analysis, projection pursuit, clustering, and nonparametric density estimation. Confirmatory methods include confidence intervals, posterior distributions, and Bayes factors. In addition, student will learn how to think in terms of probabilistic models and use data mining software effectively. Some computer programming required.

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