Live/In-person session diary 2021

General information

We will attempt to live stream, the live in-person sessions. Please note that it is UCL’s expectation that students attend in-person. The Zoom link is available here. Not all sessions will be recorded.

By UCL week

• Week 6 (4 Oct - 10 Oct):
  • Introductions, first meeting.
  • Exercise sheet
    • Solutions
  • Introduction to Python
  • This session was recorded, and will be available on Moodle, but not YouTube.
• Week 7 (11 Oct - 17 Oct):
  • We discussed the some questions/material from Week 6; in particular, why histograms approximate the true density of a random sample. We went into groups to discuss two exercise sheets.
  • Gambler’s ruin with R
    • Gambler’s solutions
  • Estimators with Python
    • Estimators’ solutions
  • This session was not recorded.
• Week 8 (18 Oct - 24 Oct):
  • We discussed material from last week; in particular, coupling and total variational distance.
  • Exercise sheet
    • Partial solutions
  • This session was recorded, and available only on Moodle.
• Week 9 (25 Oct - 31 Oct):
  • We discussed material from last week; in particular coupling from the past. We also discussed the mechanics, logistics, and expectations for ICA1.
  • Python inside R
  • Exercise sheet
    • Partial Solutions
  • This session was recorded, and only available on Moodle.
    
• Week 10 (1 Nov - 7 Nov):
  • Poisson process on a sphere
    • Solutions
  • Non-homogeneous Poisson process
    • Solutions
  • ICA1 assigned
  • This meeting was recorded and will be available in Moodle.
• Week 11 (8 Nov - 14 Nov): Reading break
• Week 12 (15 Nov - 21 Nov):
  • We discussed some previous homework exercises, and background for ICA2.
  • Weierstrass approximation theorem
  • This session was recorded, and will be available on Moodle, only.
• Week 13 (22 Nov - 28 Nov):
  • We discussed some material from last week
  • Exercise sheet
    • Solutions
  • This session was not recorded.
• Week 14 (29 Nov - 5 Dec):
  • We discussed some material from last week
  • Exercise sheet
    • Solutions
  • This session was recorded, and will be available on Moodle, only.
• Week 15 (6 Dec - 12 Dec):
  • We discussed material from last week
  • ICA2 assigned
  • This session was recorded, and will be available on Moodle, only.
• week 16 (13 Dec - 19 Dec):
  • We discussed from previous material
  • ICA3 assigned
  • This session was recorded, and will be available on Moodle, only.
  • This was the last class.
• week 24: (7 Feb - 13 Feb; 2022): ICA3 due
• week 27: (28 Feb 6 Mar; 2027): ICA2 due

Other notes

• First term Monday (27 September 2021 – Friday 17 December 2021)

Version: 13 December 2021