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COMP9418 — Advanced Topics in Statistical Machine Learning at UNSW

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +1000

I took COMP9418 in 2026 T2 as part of my Masters of Statistics. Despite the broad name, the course is really one long story about probabilistic graphical models: how to encode a joint distribution as a graph, how to answer queries against it exactly and approximately, and how to learn it from data. If you are deciding whether to enrol, or you are mid-term and drowning, this page collects everything I wish I had on day one.

MATH5806 — Applied Regression Analysis at UNSW

Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +1000

I took MATH5806 in 2026 T2 as part of my Masters of Statistics. The name undersells it: “applied regression analysis” here means generalised linear models, done properly — exponential families, link functions, iteratively reweighted least squares, deviance — with ordinary linear regression as the special case rather than the destination, and splines, Poisson and binomial regression along the way. Everything runs in R. This page is the admin, the textbook, and my notes, in one place.