🗓️ Lecture 09: Statistics recap

Published

16 11 2026

Modified

12 08 2026

🎯 Content and goals

  • This lecture clarifies your questions regarding the concepts described under “Required prior knowledge in Mathematics and Statistics” in the seminar description.
  • It is essential that you work through the full track A Recap of Undergraduate Statistics as soon as possible. We assume you know about all these concepts by the beginning of the lecture, so the lecture itself is just to recap and illustrate certain concepts.
  • Please ask your questions in advance via the Moodle forum (at least two weeks before the lecture).

🖥️ Lecture Slides

The slides for this lecture will be made available here.

📚 Mandatory Reading

  • The full track A Recap of Undergraduate Statistics
    • We will assume you know about all these concepts by the beginning of the lecture. Please post questions at least two weeks before the lecture in the Moodle forum.

🏆 Further Readings

Feel free to complement the mandatory reading with your favorite statistics textbook.

✍️ Exercises and coursework

Take-home examination (pass/fail; you must pass two of the three take-home examinations to be admitted to the final exam — see the seminar description):

  • The take-home examination tests your ability to apply the mathematical and statistical concepts covered in the lecture and described in the seminar description as required prior knowledge. Is is available via Moodle

If you have questions or problems, please post them in the Moodle forum.

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