ACSC/STAT 3740 - Winter 2024

Predictive Analytics

This is the page where I post material related to the ACSC/STAT 3740 course I am teaching in Winter 2024.

 

  • Lectures: Tuesday,Thursday 1005-1125 LSC 220
  • Office hours: Monday 13:30-14:30, Thursday 13:00-14:00, Friday 13:30-14:30

  • Office:
    In person: 102 Chase Building.
    Online: Collaborate Ultra on Brightspace

  • Please email me: tkenney@mathstat.dal.ca in advance to let me know if you will be attending online office hours.
  • Textbook: Regression Modeling with Actuarial and Financial Applications by Edward W. Frees, published by Cambridge University Press. Chapters 1--3, 5--9, 11--13
  • Additional reading Data Visualization: A Practical Introduction by Healy, Princeton University Press, 2018 Currently available online at https://socviz.co/ Chapters 1--4
  • Final Exam: Saturday, 13th April, 15:30-18:30, online on Brightspace. Here are some Practice questions and model solutions.

    • Course Details

  • Lectures will be held in-person. Videos from last year's course are available on Brightspace
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    Handouts

    Course Handout

    Class Questions

    R package with example code tutorials and dependencies for the course

    A guide to programming with useful R tips.

    Some datasets used in examples.

    Planned material

    Because of the practical nature of the course, it is essential to have interactive lectures where students present their approaches to the problems, and discuss the pros and cons of their approaches.

    Week beginning Monday Wednesday
    8th January

    Introduction and Preliminaries

    		 Data Visualisation
    15th January Data Visualisation using ggplot Data Visualisation
    22nd January Data Exploration Data Exploration
    29th January SNOW DAY Model Fitting
    5th February SNOW DAY Time Series Models
    12th February Time Series Models SNOW DAY
    19th February STUDY BREAK
    26th February Tree-based methods Tree-based methods
    4th March Variable Selection Variable Selection
    11th March Model Validation Model Validation
    18th March Communication Communication
    25th March Case Study Case Study
    1st April Revision Revision

    Homework

    Assignment 1 Due Wednesday 24th January.Data files Model Solutions
    Assignment 2 Due Wednesday 7th February. Data files Model Solutions
    Assignment 3 Due Wednesday 6th March. Data files Model Solutions
    Assignment 4 Due Wednesday 20th March. Data and code files Model Solutions
    Assignment 5 Due Wednesday 3rd April. Data files Model Solutions