Mihai Nica Lectures
Recordings of my Lectures. See also my main channel https://www.youtube.com/@MihaiNicaMath .
Why the lasso eliminates variables and intro to Principle Component Analysis | DATA6100 Nov 12 F25
Standardizing random variables, calculating with R, and *why* the normal distribution? Nov 12 F25
Intro the Normal (aka Gaussian) Random Variable and Table
Intro to Ridge Regressions (aka L2 regularization) and cartoon multicollinearity Intro Data Science
Practice probability problems: Disk on wood plank, Formulas, Geometric/Binomial, and Multiple Choice
When is it better to used biased estimators? Bias variance decomposition, James Stein Nov 3 F25
Probability Density vs Mass with a PIPE analagy, and two triangles example STAT1200 Mon Nov 3 F25
Introduction to Probability Density Functions and Continuous Random Variables STAT1200 Oct 31 F25
Bootstrapping to make trees into random forests | Intro to Data Science W Oct 29 F25
Expected Value and Variance of the Binomial Distribution | Intro to Probability W Oct 29 F25
Bayesian Classification, Linear Discriminant Analysis and Naive Bayes DATA6100 Oct 15 F25
Multiple hypothesis testing, "Null Hypothesis Monte Carlo" and The Bootstrap DATA6100 Oct 27 F25
Asymmetric types of classification errors and ROC curves | Intro to Data Science Oct 20 F25
Calculating mean and variance from a list of probabilities | Intro to Probability M Oct 27 F25
Eevee introduces the Geometric Random Variable | Intro to Probability F25 Fri Oct 24
Intro to Random Variables, Probability Mass Function, and Cumulative Distributions WOct15 F25
More binomial random variable facts and introduction to R STAT1200 M Oct 20 F25
Calculate binomial probabilities with stattrek and R | Intro to Probability W Oct 22 F25
Intro to the Binomial Distribution and Derivation of its Probability Mass Function FOct17 F25
Multi-class classification, Softmax, Bayesian Classification with 2 Sided Coins DATA6100 W Oct 8 F25
Four probability practice problems: 2 step tree problems, Bayes, Rolling triples on 5 dice WOct8F25
Intro to cross entropy loss and sigmoid function for logistic regression | DATA6100 M Oct 6 F25
Some practice problems solved Intro to Probability STAT1200 M Oct 6 F25
Probability of all distinct rolls (aka mini Birthday Problem) + other review STAT1200 Fri Oct 3 F25
More tips for regressions and Intro to Classification and KNN | DATA6100 W Oct 1 F25
Bayes Theorem and Review of Escaping Problem | STAT1200 Wed Oct 1 F25
Conditional probability misconceptions and Rare Disease Testing Paradox STAT1200 M Sep 29 F25
Linear regression stuff: Forward subset selection, converting categorical data DATA6100 M Sep 29 F25
Number of ways rearrange repeated letters, Cutting conditional probability STAT1200 Fri Sep 26 F25
Basic counting problems, Factorials, n Choose k, Combinations and Permutations STAT1200 W Sep 24 F25