Statistics Lab

Dear students!

In the following, we give more detailed information for the re-exam on Monday, the procedure will be very similar to the main exam. 

The exam will start on Monday, October 7, at 9:15 am and will take place in two rooms: Günter Hotz Lecture Hall and in building E1.3, Lecture Hall 002. It will last 90 minutes. Seating will begin at 9:00. We will put up seating plans next to the lecture hall entrances. You can look up your personal seat as well as the lecture hall also already now on your Personal Status page.

You are allowed to bring one DIN A4 page with handwritten notes on both sides, no further auxiliary aids (in particular no calculator) are allowed. When entering, please leave your jackets and bags on the sides, turn off all electronic devices (smartphones, laptops, smartwatches, ...) and leave them in your bag.

Take to your seat only

• your UdS card as well as personal identification,
• writing materials (pens, rulers, ...),
• your cheat sheet,
• food and drinks if necessary.

You are not allowed to bring/use your own paper. We will provide you with enough paper during the exam.

Please make sure to arrive at the lecture hall on time at 9:00.

Kind regards and much success!
The StatLab Team

P.S.: We have just published the solutions of the preparation sheet, check them out!  

Dear Students, 

we have published an additional trainings sheet in preparation for the re-exam. You can find it as usual in the Material section under the category Training Sheets. On next Monday, we will also publish a further version of the sheet, where we have included for each exercise additional hints that might help solving the exercise. On next Wednesday, we will then publish the solutions of the trainings sheet. Also recall that there will be two Office Hours in the next week, they are the perfect place to work on the sheet or discuss any open questions. 

Furthermore a very important reminder: Please do not forget to register for the re-exam in the LSF until next Monday. For students who do not use the LSF for exam registration (e.g. Business Informatics or Erasmus), please register for the re-exam in the CMS on your Personal Status page until next Monday. 

We will publish a further news with more organizational details on the re-exam in the course of the next week.

Best wishes, 
The StatLab Team

Dear student,

this is a reminder that tomorrow is the first out of three extra tutoring sessions that we offer to help you with preparing for the re-sit exam.

The topic will be Generating random variates and it's going to take place on

September 10, 9-12am in HS003 (E1 3)

Please also note that the re-sit exam will take place on October 7, starting at 9 am (not 8:30 as previously marked in the calendar).

Best wishes,

Emilia

 

Dear students,

we are offering three extra sessions to help you prepare for the resit exam in October. In each session, one of the tutors will give a general recap of the topic and apply it on one of the existing exercises (60-90 minutes). After that, you will have the chance to further work on the existing material and ask questions, where one of the assistants will also be present.

Please note that we selected the topics based on what caused most problems during the main exam, this does not mean that other topics are not relevant for the resit exam. You can also bring your questions related to other topics to the second part of the tutoring sessions, but discussing the main topic will have precedence.

Here is the schedule for the tutoring sessions:

Tuesday, Sept 10, 9-12 am, HS003  Generating random variates

Monday, Sept 16, 9-12 am, HS003  Parameter estimation (MLE and MoM)

Wednesday, Sept 18, 9-12 am, HS003 Bayesian inference

We encourage you to look at the material beforehand to be able to follow and ask your questions. If you have further suggestions or want to see a specific exercise solution in one of the sessions, please write on the forum.

We also plan to offer additional open-themed office hours in the week preceding the resit exam, which are not yet fixed.

Kind regards, 
The Statistics Lab Team

Dear students, 

we have published the results of the main exam, they are visible on your personal status page. The inspection will take place on Monday, July 29th, 13:15 - 14:45 in HS003 in E1 3. 
The re-exam will take place on Monday, October 7th. More detailed information on the re-exam will follow in due course. 

Kind regards, 
The Statistics Lab Team

Dear Students,

Due to a technical issue, my microphone did not record last Monday. I dedicated this morning to re-recording the entire session. I went through all the material again and did a screencast to ensure you have not only the slides but also my explanations.

The new recording is now available (see materials). Please feel free to reach out if you have any further questions. 

Best regards,
V. Wolf.

Dear student,

we have graded all exercise sheets and compiled a list of students admitted to the exam in the materials section. Please do check whether you are admitted and if not deregister on LSF. The admission criterion is 50% on the combined score in percent (the sum does not take into account missed minitests with legitimate reasons). If you are not admitted to the exam, you can retake the course next year.

For students not on LSF there is also the possibility to register for the exam in cms. Make sure to register/deregister until July 1, 23:55!

Kind regards,

Emilia

 

Dear student,

in the exam, you will be allowed to use a hand-written double-sided A4 cheat sheet.

Please note that if you have not yet registered, you can still register until next Monday. You are admitted to the exam if your combined score (percentage) is above 50. The final results on this including exercise sheet 5 will be available Wednesday the latest.

We also published solutions for the tutorial sheets under materials.

Best wishes and best of luck for your exam preparations,

Emilia

 

Dear students,

results from Minitest 5 are available on cms.

Due to student requests we decided not to do the inspections during the tutorial slots this week, but rather in two separate time slots, namely:

Tuesday, June 25, 13:30-14:30

Wednesday, June 26, 9:30-10:30

in room E1.1, SR 1.21.

You can also come to these sessions with general questions and there will be also two additional office hours in the week before the exam.

Best wishes,

Emilia

Dear students, 

due to a mistake on our side regarding the deadline of Exercise Sheet C (the deadline on the sheet was until tomorrow, May 28, while the deadline in the CMS was only until today, May 27), we extend the deadline of the submission in the CMS in your favor until tomorrow, May 28, 12:00.

Best wishes and a nice evening!

Dear students,

 

due to a drop in attendance, we will merge some of the tutorial groups, namely:

Tutorial 3 gets merged with Tutorial 4 (tutor: Henry, Room: SR 016 in E1 3)

Tutorial 5 gets merged with Tutorial 9 (tutor: Ivo, Room: SR 107 in E1.3)

Tutorial 7 gets merged with Tutorial 8 (tutor: Matthew or Ilia, depending on availability, Room: SR 107 in E1.3)

 

This week, there are no tutorials due to the public holiday on Thursday, but there is an office hour on Wednesday at 10-11 in room E1.1, SR 1.21. You are welcome to come there with any questions regarding the content of the course.

 

After inspection of the minitests, there were some requests for adjustments that we now processed, the concerning minitest scores were updated. If you asked for an adjustment and your score did not get updated, this means that the team decided that scoring was adequat.

 

Best wishes,

Emilia

 

Dear students,

we just published the third exercise sheet in the Materials section of the Statistics Lab CMS. The sheet is due May 27, 12 pm and can be submitted via the CMS.

Furthermore, note that the mini test next week will not cover additional topics due to being postponed. It may only cover those topics discussed in the lectures prior to this week.

Kind regards,
the Statistics Lab team.

Good evening everyone,

We hope that all of you came unscathed through the rain and floodings of the last days!

For tomorrow morning, there are new official warnings from the authorities (heavy rain & potential flooding). Therefore, the Minitest actually planned for tomorrow will not take place but is postponed to next Monday, May 27. Tomorrow's lecture will take place regularly starting at 8:30 am and will be recorded and uploaded as usual.

Have a nice evening and best wishes
The StatLab24 Team

Dear students,

we just published the second exercise sheet in the Materials section of the Statistics Lab CMS.
The sheet is due May 13, 12 pm and can be submitted via the CMS.

Please keep in mind that, due to a public holiday on this Thursday, we will have no tutorials in this week.
Instead, there will be an office hour on Wednesday, which will take place in E1.1, SR 1.21. 
We look forward to seeing you there. 

Kind regards,
the Statistics Lab team.

Dear student,

it will be possible to inspect minitest 1 and minitest 2 within your regular tutorial session in the week of May 13, during the last 20 minutes of the regular tutorial slot.

The inspection of minitests 3 and 4 will take place similarly in the tutorial sessions in the week of June 3, and minitest 5 can be inspected in the week of June 17.

Best wishes,

Emilia

We have completed the team grouping. Everybody who indicated their interest of taking the course for credit by joining or creating a team should have ended up in a group of 3-4 students now.

Please note that you can only hand in exercise sheets as part of a team, not individually. If you intend to take the course for credit, but did not join or create a team, please immediately contact emilia@lst.uni-saarland.de. We will try to add you to an existing team.

If during the course of the semester somebody from your team drops out resulting in a teamsize < 3, you may contact us and we will try to merge you with another group.

 

The first exercise sheet will be published next Monday and it has to be solved in a group of 3-4 students. Many of you have already found a team, but a lot of you have not. Please take the opportunity in this week's tutorials to find team mates as although it is not required to be in the same tutorial, it makes things easier for you and us.

If you did not find a team yet but are planning to take the course for credit, please create a team for yourself - this way, we know who needs to be grouped. We will merge existing groups next Monday.