Module 8: other topics

Optional:

Book sections

• An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R by James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., and Tibshirani, R.:
  • Section 5.2: The bootstrap
  • Section 7.1: Polynomial regression
  • Section 7.2: Step functions
  • Section 7.3: Basis functions
  • Section 7.6: Local regression
  • Section 8: Tree-based methods