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Clarifications on Lecture and Material
Written on 28.04.2023 14:39 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 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