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Good luck to those taking the konteeksamen, Friday August 16. Things that were judged relevant in June remain relevant (!), including the Obligs, things we went through during the last 4-5-6 weeks of the course, etc. 

As in June, you may bring *all written material* with you, and some might find it practical to print out & bring in all of Lecture1, ..., Lecture10, from the website. Also have a *calculator*, so that you can compute \sqrt{49}, the logarithm of \exp(1.234), etc. But of course you need to survive for four hours without access to verdensveven.

The exam set, firetimers, June 7, 2024: 

https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/lecture-notes-and-exercises-for-various-courses-gi/exam_stk4900_2024.pdf

Notes to the solutions: 

https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/lecture-notes-and-exercises-for-various-courses-gi/exam_stk4900_2024_notes.pdf

I was asked the following, more or less, from one of you: 

" During the forelesning you mentioned obligs are a good ¡°view¡± of how our actual exam will be. I  am just wondering does that mean we should except questions like proof and deductions that were asked in oblig 2? " 

to which I answered: 

" I can't answer that in an accurate fashion, but yes, very tentatively, (a) the Obligs might very well be relevant, (b) yes, a few questions could in principle have an element of "show that" (as opposed to "only" the "do this" modus). But the probability is low that questions will involve long mathematical arguments, so to speak. "

The four-hour written exam takes place Friday June 7, Silurveien, 15:00 to 19:00; check details here: 

/studier/emner/matnat/math/STK4900/v24/eksamen/index.html 

Permitted aids:*All printed material, also the candidate¡¯s own notes*, so by all means, if you wish to, you may print out & bring all lecture1.pdf to lecture 10.pdf (as this constitutes the curriculum). My prediction, though, is that you might not need it, during the busy four hours og thinking & doing & writing. The exercises are not composed as "memory tests". 

You also need a *calculator* (not an advanced one, so nothing with "memory" or net connection), as you might need basic things like square-root, exp, log, etc. Check details here: 

/studier/eksamen/hjelpemiddel/mn-math-kalkulatorer.html

I briefly mentioned these two Statistical Stories today, as examples where *random effects* modelling comes into the action. Key ideas inside Lecture 10 play a crucial role (though in more complicated waters): 

** One Thousand is Unfair, Two Thousand is Fair
https://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/the-focustat-blog!/twotimesthousand.html 

** Whales, Politics, and Statisticians (with Celine Cunen)
https:/www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/the-focustat-blog!/whales.html

Good luck & heppy learning!, you'll find it here at the course website, under "Obligs One (for April 8) and Two (for Mau 8)". 

On day 10 of our 10 intense days, Friday April 19, our 3rd hour 11:15 to 12:00 will be an open Questions & Answers session, and I will also gently repeat bits & pieces of what we've been learning during the course. The fruitfulness factor of this session depends (partly) on you!, so come with questions and wishes.

Oblig Two will be out in the course of that Friday. It will have two + one exercises: every student needs to work with & report on Exercises 1 and 2, whereas Exercise 3 is mandatory for the subset of you taking the stk 9900 PhD version of the course (also the masters crowd taking stk 4900 are gracefully allowed to report on that exercise too).

Dear all, 

Due to low attendance, the two group sessions Thursday April 18 and Friday April 19 will be shortened to two hours each. Specifically:
- The R session will take place at the same place as before, at 12:15 - 14:00. 
- The pen and paper session will take place at the same place as before, at 14:15 - 16:00.

Per August

The mandatory exercise set Oblig One is out; check the website, to find both the two exercises and the dataset "mothersbabies.txt", which you need to read into your computers or laptops. Check things on "page 0", with information about how to deliver your pdf, etc.; the deadline is Monday April 8, at 15:46.

God p?ske, to everyone, and good luck with Oblig One. 

Oblig Two will be after Week Two of our course, with time window t_0 = Saturday 20 April and t_1 = Monday May 6.

As you all know, teaching takes place in Week One, March 18-22, and Week Two, April 15-19. There are two Obligs (obligatory, mandatory, compulsory sets of exercises, choose your favourite adjective), where you send in your reports, qua pdf documents, inside the *Canvas* system. *Oblig One* will be made available at the course website at t_0 = Sat March 23, and your reports need to be delivered to the system by t_1 = Mon April 8, at 15:59 Blindern time.

Reports are meant to be in "good reporting prose" modus, where methods and findings are described, motivated, discussed, interpreted, supplemented with the relevant figures, numbers, perhaps tables. A document containing "only" figures, numbers, tables, snippets of R code, with minimal explanations and absence of "good reporting prose", might not pass.

We'll come back to details & time window for *Oblig Two* later on, but the expected coordinates are t_0 = Sat 20 April and t_1 =  Mon 6 May.

It's time to get to work. Week 1 is March 18 to March 22, with lots of material for us to go through. *Lectures* 9:15 - 12:00, with Nils Lid Hjort, VB Auditorium 1; then *Exercises + Data Lab* 12:15 - 16:00, with Per August Moen and Alfonso Diz-Lois Palomares, in  Undervisningsrom 126 and 32, both in Abel Building. For the 12:15 to 16:00 sessions we split into two groups, A and B; A goes to Exercises for two hours and then Data Lab for two hours, and vice versa.

93 percent of the course material will be via the *slides for the Lectures*, already in place here at the course web-page. Start by looking through these, numbered 1 to 5 for Monday to Friday, Week 1. Also look at or jump into the *R Exercises* and *Pen and Paper Exercises*, also in place already. 

No. Teaching material will be posted, explanations given, questions answered; there will hands-on help with "show that" and "explain that" exercises and with R-programming; but no, lectures will not be taped. 

A certain administrative question regarding *attendance* will be sorted out before March 1 (with decision not taken by myself, but by authorities somewhat above my head). One suggestion is that every student needs at least 75% attendance to be allowed taking the exam, i.e. in addition to doing and having the two OBLIGs accepted. At any rate you should try to attend as many of the lectures (and exercise rounds) as you can, for these two weeks of heavy teaching, March 18-22 and April 15-19.

Dear all prospective participants: this is just some basic start information. There will be two somewhat intense teaching weeks, March 18-22 and April 15-19, involving lectures + exercises + a bit of R programming.

90 percent of the material will be *slides* found at the Spring 2023 course website, prepared by colleagues of mine on one or two previous occasions, so please start looking at these. 

There will be two OBLIGs, mandatory exercise sets. The final 4-hour written exam is at June 7.

Nils Lid Hjort