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Questions from assignment 2 and 3
Written on 16.11.2025 10:11 by Inês Ferreira
Hi everyone,
Regarding your questions about assignment 2 and assignment 3:
For assignment 2, exercise 4, the exercise about placing objects into bins without collisions, a new version has been uploaded to the materials page. This updated version includes a correction on how to use the Poisson approximation for this problem, and we have also added an alternative approach using Stirling’s approximation. Please take a look to see the differences and to understand when certain approximations can or cannot be used.
For assignment 3, the solution to exercise 3 has been posted, including a detailed explanation of how to calculate the mismatch probability between the reads (p). Additionally, since there was a question about whether it was possible to use a Poisson distribution for exercise 4, we have posted a solution to exercise 4 showing both the standard approach and the Poisson-based approach.
See you next week!