Happy Thanksgiving!

There is no class 11/21 because of the Thanksgiving holiday, see the University calendar. Feel free to reach out if you have any questions/concerns about your paper/project. I will be in town and on email :)

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  1. AndrewNovember 17, 2018 at 9:31 AM

    Just posted readings for the rest of the semester as requested :)

    For those thinking of using lasso in their project, please see

    - The McNeish paper we read
    - The ISLR book we read, section 6.5 for R code examples using glmnet
    - Older code using glmpath: http://members.cbio.mines-paristech.fr/~jvert/svn/tutorials/practical/linearclassification/linearclassification.R

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