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Yanfei Kang, Ph.D.

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Dr. Yanfei Kang is Associate Professor of Statistics at Beihang University in China. Prior to that, she was Senior R&D Engineer in Big Data Group of Baidu Inc. Yanfei obtained her Ph.D. degree at Monash University in 2014. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow during 2014 and 2015 at Monash University. Her research interests include time series forecasting, time series visualization, text mining and statistical computing.

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  • Paper “Large Language Models: Their Success and Impact” appeared in Forecasting 2023-08-25
  • Paper “A hybrid ensemble method with negative correlation learning for regression” appeared in Machine Learning 2023-08-23
  • We present a modern review on forecast combinations over the past five decades 2022-12-30
  • Paper “Feature-based intermittent demand forecast combinations: accuracy and inventory implications” appeared in International Journal of Production Research 2022-12-15
  • New Paper: “Optimal reconciliation with immutable forecasts” appeared in European Journal of Operational Research 2022-11-24

Bayesian Statistics and Computing, 2021 Spring

  • L0: Course Introduction
  • R for Data Science
    • L1: R basics
    • L2: Managing data frames with the dplyr package
    • L3: Control structures and functions
    • L4: Data visualization in R
    • L5: Debugging and profiling R code
    • L6: Reproducible learning via rmarkdown (slides, html, pdf, word versions are available with source code available here)
  • Optimization
    • L7: Newton’s method (R code: newton.R, newton.raphson.deriv.R, newton.raphson.D.R)
    • L8: Quasi-Newton methods
    • L9: Derivative free methods (supplementary material)
    • L10: Stochastic gradient descent (SGD) (supplementary material)
  • Bayesian Computing
    • L11: Bayesian thinking
    • L12: Introduction to Bayesian computing
    • L13: Independent Monte Carlo
    • L14: Markov Chain Monte Carlo (Hints for Lab11)
  • Applied Linear Algebra
    • L15: Singular value decomposition (SVD)
    • L16: Numerical algorithms for eigenanalysis
    • L17: Image Recognition based on SVD
  • Review
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