Sparse Inference, and Network and Text Analysis

Harvard FAS

High dimensional data analysis is a recent interdisciplinary research area of Statistics, Genetics and Genomics, Engineering, and several other scientific areas. It addresses an array of challenging problems that of contemporary interest, and research in this area has been very active in the past decade.This course aims to provide a systematic introduction to various topics in high dimensional data analysis, focusing on large-scale sparse learning, and network and text data analysis.…