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Re-Exam Grades

Written on 20.10.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear students,

The grades of the re-exam have been entered into the LSF.

We hope that you enjoyed our class and we wish you a delightful upcoming semester!

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Re-Exam Inspection

Written on 09.10.23 (last change on 08.11.23) by Dominic Zimmer

Dear students,

the re-exam has been graded and your grades have been entered into dCMS. On Thursday, 12th of October, you will have the opportunity to inspect your re-exams. The inspection will take place between 10:00 and 12:00 in building E1 1, room 407

On the day of the inspection, you must… Read more

Dear students,

the re-exam has been graded and your grades have been entered into dCMS. On Thursday, 12th of October, you will have the opportunity to inspect your re-exams. The inspection will take place between 10:00 and 12:00 in building E1 1, room 407

On the day of the inspection, you must bring your student id. You will not be allowed to take pictures or notes during the inspection, and there will be no time for interactions with the team that aim at sharpening your problem-solving capabilities.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Final Exam Grades, Re-Exam and Office Hour

Written on 13.09.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear students,

The grades of the final exam have been entered into the LSF. To participate in the re-exam, you must register in LSF by September 27th.

To help you in your re-exam preparations, we will offer an extended office hour in which you can prepare for the exam, discuss the materials of… Read more

Dear students,

The grades of the final exam have been entered into the LSF. To participate in the re-exam, you must register in LSF by September 27th.

To help you in your re-exam preparations, we will offer an extended office hour in which you can prepare for the exam, discuss the materials of the lecture and ask questions to your tutors and assistant. The office hour will take place on Wednesday, September 20th in E1 3, Lecture Hall 001 from 12:00 to 16:00, or until everyone has left. To help us prepare, please indicate your attendance on your Personal Status page.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Final Exam Inspection

Written on 28.08.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear students,

this is a reminder that the final exam inspection is taking place this friday, September 1st. Note that, as mentioned in the last news, registration on your personal status page is mandatory.

We'd like to point out that the early time slot 13:00-13:30 has received a large number… Read more

Dear students,

this is a reminder that the final exam inspection is taking place this friday, September 1st. Note that, as mentioned in the last news, registration on your personal status page is mandatory.

We'd like to point out that the early time slot 13:00-13:30 has received a large number of registrations, while later time slots have received significantly fewer registrations. Since inspecting your exam is bound to your assigned time slots, it is in your own interest to consider updating your registration to one of the less popular time slots.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Final Exam Inspection

Written on 14.08.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear students,

On Friday, September 1st, you will have the opportunity to inspect your final exam. The inspection takes place between 13:00 and 15:30 in building E1 1, room 407. You need to register for the inspection on your personal status page for load-balancing purposes. You may only arrive… Read more

Dear students,

On Friday, September 1st, you will have the opportunity to inspect your final exam. The inspection takes place between 13:00 and 15:30 in building E1 1, room 407. You need to register for the inspection on your personal status page for load-balancing purposes. You may only arrive during your selected time slot to inspect your exam. Note, however, that you are expected to have finished your inspection at the end of the time slot selected. Your fellow students will appreciate non-excessive inspections. The deadline for registration is 23:59 on Tuesday, 29th of August and registration is a mandatory requirement for inspecting your exam.

On the day of the inspection, you must bring your student id. You will not be allowed to take pictures or notes during the inspection, and there will be no time for interactions with the team that aim at sharpening your problem-solving capabilities.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Exam Details

Written on 27.07.23 by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

On Tuesday, August 1, you will write the main exam. If you are registered, you will now find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us immediately. Please be at the lecture halls no later… Read more

Dear students,

On Tuesday, August 1, you will write the main exam. If you are registered, you will now find your room and seat on your personal status page. If we did not assign you a seat and you think that this is an error, please notify us immediately. Please be at the lecture halls no later than 13:50. The exam takes 90 minutes.

Let us also clarify the lifecycle of your cheat sheet: The cheat sheet becomes part of your exam booklet and will be collected at the end. During exam inspection, you will have the opportunity to get your cheat sheet back.

Good luck while preparing and see you next week!

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Q&A Session and Exam Preparation

Written on 17.07.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

You can find the slides and notes of today's Wrap-Up lecture and Q&A session in the materials section.

Note that the exam registration deadline is the 25.07.2023 23:59. If you wish to take the exam, make sure you are registered.

On Thursday, 20th July, a final office hour will… Read more

Dear Students,

You can find the slides and notes of today's Wrap-Up lecture and Q&A session in the materials section.

Note that the exam registration deadline is the 25.07.2023 23:59. If you wish to take the exam, make sure you are registered.

On Thursday, 20th July, a final office hour will take place where our tutors will be happy to answer you any remaining questions.

To help you further prepare for the final exam, we published an optional exam preparation sheet with additional exercises.
To give you a realistic impression of the scope and style of the main exam, we provide you with a mock exam that aims to simulate a realistic exam experience.
You can find both problem sets at the top of the materials section of the CMS.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Additional Exam Information

Written on 03.07.23 (last change on 03.07.23) by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

here you can find additional information on the exam, in particular with respect to the expected tasks and cheat sheet modalities.

Best Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Re-Exam

Written on 22.06.23 by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

the date and time for the re-exam have been fixed: We, 04th October 2023 at 14:00 s.t.

The admission criteria do not change between the main and re-exam.

Best regards,
The StatsLab Team

Wrap-Up and Q&A

Written on 21.06.23 (last change on 21.06.23) by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

Yesterday, we completed the last chapter of the course script. We will meet once more in a plenum, where one part will be an impulse talk about "Real-World Statistics", and the second part will be an open exam Q&A. You can expect to learn a little about pitfalls when applying… Read more

Dear students,

Yesterday, we completed the last chapter of the course script. We will meet once more in a plenum, where one part will be an impulse talk about "Real-World Statistics", and the second part will be an open exam Q&A. You can expect to learn a little about pitfalls when applying statistics to real-world problems from the talk. For the Q&A, we expect you to come up with concrete questions. With concrete, we mean that for instance:

  • "I didn't understand Chapter 4, could you repeat it" is not concrete enough and will not be answered.
  • "Why is computing the p-value instead of fixing an α better?" is concrete, and we are happy to elaborate.

This session happens on Mo, July 17th, at the usual time and place.

Best regards,
The StatsLab Team

Data Science Project

Written on 20.06.23 (last change on 20.06.23) by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

Unfortunately, the planned "Data Science Project" could not be set up in time and with adequate quality. While we think it is essential that you practice working with Python and data analysis libraries, we are not convinced that the current state of the project assignment provides a… Read more

Dear students,

Unfortunately, the planned "Data Science Project" could not be set up in time and with adequate quality. While we think it is essential that you practice working with Python and data analysis libraries, we are not convinced that the current state of the project assignment provides a helpful learning environment.

Hence, you automatically passed the project assignment / can consider the project void.

Best regards,
The StatsLab Team

Office Hour — Room Change

Written on 12.06.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

please note that the office hour tomorrow on June 13 will take place in E1 3 room 528, not in SR 107.

See you there
Your StatsLab Team

Exam Date

Written on 03.05.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

the date of the main exam has been fixed to be the 01.08.2023 on 14:00. The exam will take 90 minutes.

Find more information on the Modalities page in the CMS.

Kind regards
Your StatsLab Team

Clarifications on Lecture and Material

Written on 28.04.23 by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

Thank you for giving feedback to the tutors during the colloquia. We feel that some of them should be globally addressed because it seems there are misunderstandings. The following has feedback (F) and answers (A).

F: Lecture notes as PDF would be better.
A: You can "Print as… Read more

Dear students,

Thank you for giving feedback to the tutors during the colloquia. We feel that some of them should be globally addressed because it seems there are misunderstandings. The following has feedback (F) and answers (A).

F: Lecture notes as PDF would be better.
A: You can "Print as PDF" in your browser. Web-based solutions have the benefit that they scale to different screen sizes (which is not so much the case with PDF).

F: Too much text on slides. Can we get the slides beforehand?
F: There are examples in the slides that are not in the lecture notes, and it would be great if they could be added.

A: As of last week, we upload the script before the lecture. Note that the content is structured as follows: there is a Jupyter notebook with all the content. The notebook is fully (!) converted to the script that we serve on the web. A (rather large) subset of the notebook is shown in the lecture. Hence, there cannot be examples in the slides that are not in the script.

F: The book is easy to follow, but there are no concrete definitions.
A: This is not correct. We give quite some definitions (e.g. probability, mutual independence, etc.).

F: Having breaks in the lecture is nice, they should be 5 minutes instead of 3.
A: Normal lectures give 90 min of content in a 105 min slot (if you assume c.t.). The 08:30 slot is special, so there is actually no time for breaks, but we're still doing them because they make sense (and support learning). Longer breaks mean that there is more content that was not discussed in the lecture and is left for self-study.

Finally, further feedback on the lecture's style and pace has been noted, and we are trying to adjust. Thank you all for giving feedback.

Best regards,
The StatsLab Team

Office Hours

Written on 25.04.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

we will offer two weekly office hours for you to asks questions, discuss the topics of the lecture with your tutors, or solve the exercises together.

The office hours take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:15 to 13:45. On tuesdays, we will meet in E1 3 in seminar room 107,… Read more

Dear Students,

we will offer two weekly office hours for you to asks questions, discuss the topics of the lecture with your tutors, or solve the exercises together.

The office hours take place on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 12:15 to 13:45. On tuesdays, we will meet in E1 3 in seminar room 107, and on Thursdays in seminar room 015.

Kind regards
Your StatsLab Team

Colloquium Assignment

Written on 24.04.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

the colloquium assignments have been published. You can find your assigned time slot and tutor in your Personal Status page in the CMS. Note that the CMS refers to colloquia as tutorials. If you scroll further further, you will find a heading "Colloquium" where you can find the forum… Read more

Dear Students,

the colloquium assignments have been published. You can find your assigned time slot and tutor in your Personal Status page in the CMS. Note that the CMS refers to colloquia as tutorials. If you scroll further further, you will find a heading "Colloquium" where you can find the forum contact information of your group members to get in touch.

Please note that, in favor of time slot preferences, not all group preferences could be realized.

The colloquia will begin this week with Colloquium A on Wednesday.

Kind regards
Your StatsLab Team

Course Material

Written on 18.04.23 by Andreas Schmidt

Dear students,

we switched to web-based exports of the introduction slide deck and the lecture script. These materials are protected using a name and password that you find in the materials section (we only give it for the intro lecture, but it is the same for all slide decks/chapters).

Regards,
Read more

Dear students,

we switched to web-based exports of the introduction slide deck and the lecture script. These materials are protected using a name and password that you find in the materials section (we only give it for the intro lecture, but it is the same for all slide decks/chapters).

Regards,
The StatsLab Team

Colloquia and Course Registration

Written on 17.04.23 by Dominic Zimmer

Dear Students,

You can now enter your colloquia preferences on your Personal Status page in the CMS. 

To attend the colloquia, you can form teams of up to four members by (1) creating a new team or (2) joining an existing team by using its invite code.
Additionally, we ask you to provide your… Read more

Dear Students,

You can now enter your colloquia preferences on your Personal Status page in the CMS. 

To attend the colloquia, you can form teams of up to four members by (1) creating a new team or (2) joining an existing team by using its invite code.
Additionally, we ask you to provide your availability for each individual colloquium slot. Please choose preferred for your preferred time slot(s), choose okay for not preferred time slots. Only choose not okay if you have an academic event in the time slot that prevents you from attending that colloquium slot. We will try to respect your preferences in a best-effort attempt.

The course registration closes temorrow, on April 18, 23:59. You can form groups and update your colloquium preferences until April 20, 23:59.

You can now find the Training Sheet A in the Materials section of the CMS. The lecture notes will be made available there shortly.

Kind regards,
Your StatsLab Team

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Course Goals

This course serves as an introduction to the fundamentals of statistics and probability theory. Additional practical exercises will teach you how to perform rudimentary statistical data analysis using the Python programming language in combination with well-established packages such as pandas.

 

Topics

  • Descriptive Statistics and Visualizations in Python
  • Probabilities and Discrete Random Variables
  • Continuous Random Variables and Laws of Large Numbers
  • Parameter Estimation
  • Statistical Testing
  • Computer Simulations and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Stochastic Processes

 

Modalities

You can find all relevant information about the lectures, exercises, and exams on the modalities page.

 

Registration

The registration for this course is open from Mar 31st.

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