Prerequisites: (CASMA 575) AND (CASMA 581) or consent of instructor. - Introduces theory and methods of non- and semiparametric data analysis. Topics include scatterplot smoothers, bias/variance trade-off, selection of smoothing parameter, generalized additive model, smoothing spline, and Bayesian nonparametric models. Applications in various fields are discussed.

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