Deadlines
- Moodle Reading Mon Nov 8, midnight
- Practice 8 Mon Nov 8, midnight
- Book Ch. 4 — How Numbers Get Their Clout — read for Forum 4, Fri Nov 5
- Forum 4 Wed Nov 10, midnight
Week 10: Linear Regression
Learning Objectives
- 10A I can train and interpret linear regression models.
- 10B I can apply Ridge and Lasso regularization to reduce overfitting and explain the effect of the regularization parameter.
- 10C I can compute and interpret regression performance metrics — MAE, RMSE, and R².
Materials
- Monday class · handout (PDF)
- Wednesday class · handout (PDF)
- Practice 08 — linear regression, MAE/RMSE/R², Ridge, Lasso and elastic net, on 1970s cars
- Forum 4 instructions