Covers optimization in machine learning, focusing on gradient descent for linear and logistic regression, stochastic gradient descent, and practical considerations.
Covers the basics of machine learning, supervised and unsupervised learning, various techniques like k-nearest neighbors and decision trees, and the challenges of overfitting.
Explores supervised learning in financial econometrics, covering linear regression, model fitting, potential problems, basis functions, subset selection, cross-validation, regularization, and random forests.