Machine learning and statistical learning

The course introduces students to the most important algorithmical and statistical machine learning tools. The first part of the course focuses on the statistical foundations and on the methodological aspects. The second part is more hands-on, with laboratories to help students develop their software skills.

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:
1. understand the notion of overfitting and its role in controlling the statistical risk
2. describe some of the most important machine learning algorithms and explain how they avoid overfitting
3. run machine learning experiments using the correct statistical methodology
4. provide statistical interpretations of the results.