Econometrics, statistics, and machine learning answer different sorts of questions. ML excels at finding patterns in data and using these patterns for classification and prediction.

Spring 2018 Instructor: Michael Mozer Course Objectives For humans and machines, intelligence requires making sense of the world — inferring simple explanations for the mishmosh of information coming ...

We propose a united approach to maximum likelihood estimation, classification, and statistical learning in the context of finite mixture models, based on observations that can be considered a ...