we start Wed Aug 25

This is a 2nd "welcome to the course" message; be sure to read the previous one too. Our time slot is Wednesdays, 9:15 to 12:00, in Auditorium 4, Vilhelm Bjerknes Building, and we start out Aug 25.

Usually the 3 Blindern hours (45 minutes with 15 minutes breaks) will be structured in a 2 hour lecture + 1 hour exercises format, but there will be exceptions, depending on how various themes progress. On this first day there will be no exercises, and we might not use the full 3 hours.

I've placed a set of Exercises & Lecture Notes on the course site; please print them out for your work. These are partly based on previous occasions, and they will be extended further during this semester of teaching. Exercises during the course will be taken both from this "Nils Collection" and from the book, the BDA3.

We'll start with an attempt at a general overview, of Bayesian themes, pointing to practicalities, etc., and after a somewhat quick going-through of Ch 1 we'll be styding Ch 2 in more detail. We might use 3 weeks for this general introduction part of the course.