ECE 598IS - Information Theory and High-Dimensional Statistics (Fall 2025)

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• Lecture 2 - Statistical Decision Theory (scribe)
• Lecture 3 - From Estimation to Testing (scribe)
• Lecture 4 - Divergence Measures and Inequalities (scribe)
• Lecture 5 - Minimax lower bound via divergence measures (scribe)
• Lecture 6 - Information Measures and Inequalities (scribe)
• Lecture 7 - Distance-based Fano's method and sparse GLM (scribe)
• Lecture 8 - Upper bound for k-sparse GLM (scribe)
• Lecture 9 - Some concentration inequalities (scribe)
• Lecture 10 - Minimax bounds for sparse linear regression (scribe)
• Lecture 11 - Spase linear regression: MLE and Lasso (scribe)