Statistics Internship: Classification and Support Vector Machines
Grade Level(s): High School
Date(s): July 11 - 15, 2016
Location: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Cost: No Cost (Stipend Awarded: $2500 for teachers)
Description: Participate in a one-of-a-kind PAID Statistics Internship (3 teachers will be selected) with Dr. Yichao Wu. During the internship you will be engaged in activities related to R (http://www.r-project.org/) and Support Vector Machines (http://www.svms.org/tutorials/Hearst-etal1998.pdf). You will learn about classification, which is the problem of predicting which of a set of categories a future observation belongs to, based on a training set of observations with their category membership known. Our everyday life is full of classification examples: doctors make cancer prediction after conducting diagnosis tests; an email filter tries to discriminate between spam and non-spam emails based on keywords. Finally, you will tour some local research organizations and work on assignments based on codes you develop.
Contact(s): Dr. Yichao Wu (http://www4.stat.ncsu.edu/~wu/)
Application Deadline: March 15, 2016