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ECON4949: Special Topic in Economic Analysis 2

This unit of study facilitates access to economics units outside the Honours program, such as those offered at postgraduate level. As such, the topic and availability of the unit varies from semester to semester, and students should seek the approval of the Honours coordinator to enrol.

Code ECON4949
Academic unit Economics
Credit points 6
Prerequisites:
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None
Corequisites:
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None
Prohibitions:
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None

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. understand the objective of statistical machine learning
  • LO2. understand different machine learning methods, including basic mathematical derivations
  • LO3. identify applications to which certain machine learning methods can be applied
  • LO4. evaluate advantages and disadvantages of different machine learning methods.

Unit outlines

Unit outlines will be available 2 weeks before the first day of teaching for the relevant session.