Labs

Stat 154/254: Statistical Machine Learning

We will post labs here as we go.

General instructions

Oral Exam instructions

Lab 0 (08/31/2026)

Lab 0 Intro - Logistics + Coding for ML

Lab 0 Exercise - Coding for ML + Linear Regression Basics

Lab 1 (09/14/2026)

Lab 1 Intro - Data Visualization for Linear Modeling

Lab 1 Exercise - Linear Regression Challenge

Lab 2 (09/21/2026)

Lab 2 Presentation - Challenge continuation + splines

Lab 3 (09/28/2026)

Lab 3 Oral Exam

Lab 4 (10/05/2026)

Lab 4 Intro - Cross Validation Presentation

Lab 4 Exercise -Cross Validation Tasks and Challenge

Lab 5 (10/12/2026)

Lab 5 Intro - Cross Validation for Non-IID Data

Lab 5 Exercise - Cross Validation Second Challenge

Lab 6 (10/19/2026)

Lab 6 Oral Exam

Lab 7 (10/26/2026)

Lab 7 Intro - Proxy Losses, Logistic Regression and ROC Curves

Lab 7 Exercise - Proxy Losses, Logistic Regression and ROC Curves

Lab 8 (11/02/2026)

Lab 8 Intro - Trees, Bagging, Boosting and the F1 Score

Lab 8 Exercise - Classification Competition

Lab 9 (11/09/2026)

Lab 9 Oral Exam