Biological data science I: statistical learning
BIOENG-210
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Professor: Gioele La Manno
Head Assistant: Alireza Gargoori
Teaching Assistants:
Andrea Salati
Arsh Shaikh
Ellen Dagher
Luca Fusar Bassini
Morgane Storey
Nathan Tabet
Daniele Giuli
Daniel Molinuevo
Lectures:
Mondays @ 13:15 - 15:00 in CM1 2
Excercise:
Thursdays @ 14:15-16:00 in CE1 6
The following complementary textbooks can be helpful to who wants to go deeper in the topics:
• ITB - Introduction to Probability by Joseph K. Blitzstein and Jessica Hwang
• CASI - Computer Age Statistical Inference by Bradley Efron and Trevor Hastie
• ESL - The Elements of Statistical Learning by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman
• PRML - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning by Christopher M. Bishop
- Announcements (Forum)
- QuickStart - Guide to the Course (File)
- Discussion forum (External tool)
- Syllabus of topics (good to organize exam preparation) (File)
- Formulas to learn (File)
- Extended Syllabus (File)
- Lecture 0 - Slides (File)
- Lecture 1 - Slides (File)
- Lecture 1 - Notes (File)
- Hands-on 1 (Folder)
- Github Copilot installation guide (File)
As mentioned earlier, the course is self-contained, and the Lectures, Slides, and Notes are the main sources for the content that will be tested in the exam.
Nonetheless, here are a few readings that we recommend to deepen your understanding of the topics discussed in Lecture 2.
Textbook:
PRML Section 2.3.4
CASI 4.1 & 4.2
Paper:
Schober et al. (2018) - https://journals.lww.com/anesthesia-analgesia/fulltext/2018/05000/correlation_coefficients__appropriate_use_and.50.aspx
- Lecture 2 - Slides (File)
- Lecture 2 - Notes (File)
- Hands-on 2 (Folder)
- Hands-on 2 (Assignment)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 2 (Folder)
- Lectue 3 - Slides (File)
- Lecture 3 - Notes (File)
- Hands-on 3 (Folder)
- Hands-on 3 (Assignment)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 3 (Folder)
- Lecture 4 - Slides (updated!) (File)
- Lecture 4 - Notes (File)
- Hands-on 4 (Folder)
- Hands-on 4 (Assignment)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 4 (Folder)
- Lecture 5 - Slides (updated) (File)
- Lecture 5 - Notes (File)
- Hands-on 5 (Folder)
- Hands-on 5 (Assignment)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 5 (Folder)
- Lecture 6 - Slides (updated) (File)
- Lecture 6 - Notes (File)
- Hand-on 6 (Folder)
- Hands-on 6 (Assignment)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 6 (Folder)
- Answers to exam-like questions (File)
- Exercises TA session (File)
- Solution - Exercises TA session (File)
- Lecture 8 - Slides (v2) (File)
- Lecture 8 - Notes (File)
- Mock Exam (File)
- Answers Mock Exam.pdf (File)
- Lecture 9 - Notes (File)
- Lecture 9 - Slides (File)
- Hands-on 7 (Folder)
- Hands-on 7 (Assignment)
- Hands-on 7 Slides (File)
- Solution and Grades - Hands-on 7 (Folder)
Vacation week
(Monday there is no lecture, vacation)
No coding hands-on this week! Instead, we will have an Exercise session with problems about theory content.
- Lecture 10 - Slides (v2) (File)
- Lecture 10 - Notes (File)
- Exercises - Week 10 (File)
- Exercises - Week 10 - Solutions (File)
No coding hands-on this week! Instead, we will have an Exercise session with problems about theory content.
- Lecture 12 - Notes (File)
- Lecture 12 - Slides (File)
- Exercise 10 (not graded) (File)
- Solutions - Exercise session 10 (File)
The TA session will be dedicated to a second mock exam.
Thursday 29th May: no TA session, bank holiday