Links for Stat 0009

General information

• ICA1-2024

• Module outline

• Location and time

• Live in-person sessions

• Homework

• UCL Calender 2024-2025

• Materials from previous years

• Recorded lectures on YouTube

Lecture notes, by week (tenative)

Week 6

• Introduction to R
  • Introduction to Quarto
• Introduction to Python
• Basic probability and statistics via R
• Watch videos: Introduction to R and Probability via R

Week 7

• Random variables: theory and practice
• Coupling and total variational distance
• You always knew coupling
• Review of MC
• Watch videos: Random variables: theory and practice; Coupling and total variational distance; Review of Markov chains.

Week 8

• Making Markov chains converge
• More advance material (can postpone)
  • Coupling from the past
• Watch videos:
  • Making Markov chains converge
  • Coupling from the past (can postpone)

Week 9

• Poisson processes
• Poisson processes, worked exercises
• Watch videos: Poisson processes

Week 10

• ICA 1 2024

• Continuous-time Markov chains

• Watch videos: Continuous-time Markov chains

• ICA1 2023

• ICA1 2022

• ICA 1 2021

Week 11 (Reading week)

Week 12

• Introduction to renewal theory
• Watch videos: Introduction to renewal theory (2 videos)
• ICA 1 due

Week 13

• Introduction to renewal theory II
• Introduction to renewal theory III
• Watch the rest of the renewal theory videos (5 +2)

Week 14

• Introduction to queues
• Watch videos: Introduction to queues (3 videos)

Week 15

• Introduction queues II
• Watch videos: Introduction to queues (2 videos)
• ICA2 2023–released

Week 16

• ICA3 2023–released
  • ICA3 2022
  • ICA3 2021
    • sols
      
• Bonus C++
• Revisions, wrap up.

Endnotes

Version: 01 November 2024