03_1_reading.md

Week 3 reading

Smoothing splines, K nearest neighbors, bias-variance tradeoff, classification

1. Reading for Tuesday: smoothing spline, KNN

James et al. Chapter 7.4: Regression splines

James et al. Chapter 7.5: Smoothing splines

James et al. Chapter 3.5: Comparison of linear regression with K-nearest neighbors

James et al. Chapter 2.2: Assessing model accuracy (to the end of 2.2.2: bias-variance trade-off)

2. Reading for Thursday: classification

James et al. Chapter 2.2.3: The classification setting (including KNN)