The bias-variance tradeoff# ======================= Required readings# Chapter 1: Introduction. James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to statistical learning: with applications in R (Vol. 6). New York: Springer. Chapter 2: Statistical learning. James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013). An introduction to statistical learning: with applications in R (Vol. 6). New York: Springer. Lecture (Video)# Slides (PDF)#