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INF2-FDS: S1 Week 11 - Estimation and confidence intervals

Monday's lecture: Estimation

  • Reading: Lecture notes Chapter 15
  • Slides for Monday's lecture
  • Two sets of comprehension questions‏ on estimation (standard deviation & standard error and bias & variance) are in Gradescope in Learn Ultra

Wednesday's lecture: Confidence intervals

  • Reading: Lecture notes Chapter 16
  • Slides for Wednesday's lecture
  • Comprehension questions‏ on confidence intervals are in Gradescope in Learn Ultra
  • You might want to try the problems on the sheet for the S2 Week 4 workshop

Lab

This week's lab is on Estimation of confidence intervals with the bootstrap, which is covered in the lectures.

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    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 1 - Introduction and Data
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 2 - Descriptive statistics
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 3 - Exploratory data analysis, data communication and visualisation
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 4 - Data Ethics, Data Scraping and statistical relationships
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 5 - Introduction to supervised learning - Nearest Neighbours
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 6 - Linear models
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 7 - Coursework 1
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 8 - Multiple regression
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 9 - Dealing with high dimensions
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 10 - Randomness, sampling and simulation
    • INF2-FDS: S1 Week 11 - Estimation and confidence intervals
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    • INF2-FDS: S2 Week 1 - Hypothesis testing and A/B testing
    • INF2-FDS: S2 Week 2 - Logistic regression
    • INF2-FDS: S2 Week 3 - Introduction to unsupervised learning - K-means
    • INF2-FDS: S2 Week 4 - Ethical and legal issues in supervised learning
    • INF2-FDS: S2 Week 5 - Regression and inference
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