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BIOSTAT 216 tentative schedule and handouts (expect frequent updates)

Week Thursday Homework
1 9/26 intro. [slide], vector space (BR 4) [slide] HW1
2 10/3 rank (BR 5) [slide]  
3 10/10 linear equations and matrix inverses (BR 9) [slide] HW2
4 10/17 projection (BR 6) [slide], orthogonal projection (BR 7, 8) [slide]  
5 10/24 determinant (BR 10) [slide], GE/LU [slide], QR [slide], eigen-decomposition [slide] HW3
6 10/31 positive (semi)definite matrix/Cholesky/Schur complement [slide]  
7 11/7 SVD [slide] HW4
8 11/14 Kronecker product, vec, vech, communtation, duplication [slide]  
9 11/21 optimization and multivariate calculus [slide], neural network and backpropagation [slide] HW5+Final
  Thanksgiving (no class)  
10 12/5 matrix calculus: chain rule for Jacobian [slide]