Monte Carlo: Markov ChainsCovers unsupervised learning, dimensionality reduction, SVD, low-rank estimation, PCA, and Monte Carlo Markov Chains.
Maximum Likelihood EstimationCovers Maximum Likelihood Estimation in statistical inference, discussing MLE properties, examples, and uniqueness in exponential families.
Latent Variable ModelsExplores latent variable models, EM algorithm, and Jensen's inequality in statistical modeling.
Supervised Learning EssentialsIntroduces the basics of supervised learning, focusing on logistic regression, linear classification, and likelihood maximization.