90909 - Workshop 2 (WS8)

Academic Year 2020/2021

Learning outcomes

Workshops are designed to provide students with transversal skills that can prove useful in their future careers. The objective of the workshop is to help students to practice skills through application of information technology, data analysis, decision-making techniques (e.g. simulation) in complex organizations.

Course contents

WS8 - PROGRAMMING STATISTICS, part II

Statistical learning for classification. In particular:

- logistic regression

- sentiment classification

- text and content analysis

Exercises in R language and analysis of state-of-art papers.

Readings/Bibliography

James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to statistical learning (Vol. 112, p. 18). New York: springer.

Teaching methods

Virtual lectures

Assessment methods

Evaluation of a final project

Teaching tools

Slides by the teacher

Office hours

See the website of Elena Morotti