Psych 253
Basics
Course Schedule & Syllabus
Software Tools
Links to slides and Jupyter notebooks used during lectures, as well as assignments, will be posted here throughout the quarter.
Date Session
03/29
Foundations
What is Data? What are Models?
03/31
Foundations
Modeling: a framework and strategy
04/05
Foundations
Reliability: the data as a model of itself
04/07
Foundations
Regression: OLS
04/12
Foundations
Correlation Analysis
04/14
Supervised Models
Minimum distance classifiers
04/19
Supervised Models
SVMs and logistic regression
04/21
Supervised Models
Regularization
04/26
Supervised Models
Mixed effects and hierarchical models
04/28
Unsupervised Models
Clustering
05/03
Unsupervised Models
Linear Algebra Review
05/05
Unsupervised Models
Dimensionality Reduction
05/10
Timeseries Models
Guest lecture from Nilam Ram
05/12
Causal Models
Structural Equation Modeling
05/17
Causal Models
Graphical Models
05/19
Causal Models
Network Analysis
05/24
Foundations
Optimization
Calculus Review
Intro to Tensorflow
05/26
Foundations
Making Your Own Custom Models
05/31
Memorial Day Holiday
- no class
06/02 Project Presentations
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Lecture 1
Lecture 2
Lecture 3
Lecture 4
Lecture 5
Lecture 6
Lecture 7
Lecture 8
Lecture 9
Lecture 10
Lecture 11a (Vectors)
Lecture 11b (Matrices)
Lecture 11c (Eigenstuff)
Lecture 12
Lec. 14a (SEM)
Lec. 14b (Indirect Effects)
Lec. 15a (Graphical Models)
Lec. 15b (Gaussian GMs)
Lecture 16
Lec. 17 (Optimization)
Lec. 17a (Calc. Review)
Lec. 17b (Tensorflow)
Lecture 18
Assignments
HW1 Released
HW1 Due;
HW2 released
HW2 Due
Project writeup due