Stat 243: Statistical Learning
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    Statistical Learning

    Stat 243 Reed College, Fall 2026

    Week 1

    Monday, Aug 31

    Course Introduction
    Slides

    Wednesday, Sep 2

    Activity
    Slides

    Friday, Sep 4

    Lab 1: Intro

    Readings

    • Join Slack
    • Gradescope course entry code: 68V7B3

    Week 2

    Monday, Sep 7

    No Class: Holiday

    Wednesday, Sep 9

    Assessing Accuracy

    Friday, Sep 11

    Linear Models I

    Readings

    • For Wednesday: Read this blog post
    • For Friday: TBD

    Week 3

    Monday, Sep 14

    Linear Models II (and Quiz I)

    Wednesday, Sep 16

    Linear Models III

    Friday, Sep 18

    Lab 2: Linear Models

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 4

    Monday, Sep 21

    Cross Validation

    Wednesday, Sep 23

    Bootstrapping

    Friday, Sep 25

    Lab 3: Resampling Methods (and Quiz 2)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 5

    Monday, Sep 28

    Penalized Regression: Ridge

    Wednesday, Sep 30

    Penalized Regression: LASSO

    Thursday, Oct 1 9:00am

    Lab 4: Penalized Regression (and Quiz 3)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 6

    Monday, Oct 5

    Generalized Linear Models

    Wednesday, Oct 7

    Generalized Linear Models: Counts

    Thursday, Oct 8 9:00am

    Lab 5: GLM Regression (and Quiz 4)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 7

    Monday, Oct 12

    Classification with GLMs

    Wednesday, Oct 14

    More classification with GLMs

    Friday, Oct 16

    Lab 6: GLM Classification (and Quiz 5)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week Fall Break

    Saturday, Oct 17 - Sunday, Oct 25

    No Class

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 8

    Monday, Oct 26

    kNN

    Wednesday, Oct 28

    Classification Trees

    Friday, Oct 30

    Lab 7: Nonparametric Classification (and Quiz 6)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 9

    Monday, Nov 2

    Regression Trees I

    Wednesday, Nov 4

    Regression Trees II

    Friday, Nov 6

    Lab 8: Trees (and Quiz 7)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 10

    Monday, Nov 9

    Bagging

    Wednesday, Nov 11

    Boosting

    Friday, Nov 13

    Lab 9: Ensemble Trees (and Quiz 8)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 11

    Monday, Nov 16

    k-Means clustering

    Wednesday, Nov 18

    Hierarchical clustering

    Friday, Nov 20

    Lab 10: Clustering (and Quiz 9)

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 12

    Monday, Nov 23

    Selected Topics

    Wednesday, Nov 25

    Selected Topics

    Friday, Oct 16

    No class: Holiday

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 13

    Monday, Nov 30

    Selected Topics

    Wednesday, Dec 2

    Selected Topics

    Friday, Dec 4

    Project Work Day

    Readings

    • None this week

    Week 14

    Monday, Dec 7

    Selected Topics / Project Presentations

    Wednesday, Dec 9

    Project Presentations

    Readings

    • None this week
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