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Good job on the exam everyone! The grading process is ongoing and will be finished by next week.

Also, I would greatly appreciate any feedback from you on the course (lectures, exercises, book, exam, etc). This was indeed the first time the course was given and your comments/suggestions would help a lot when preparing version two. You can send your comments by email to the student representative or directly to me. Alternatively, you can also add them under ¡°Course feedback¡± in Padlet.

Thank you in advance and have a nice and relaxing summer!

Send me an email if you have any questions. Additional comments/instructions about the exam:

• Update: You may not use Equation (1) in the proof of 4(b), unless you have proven that Equation (1) holds without using 4(b). The rest of the equations in Problem 4 are definitions and can be used freely.

There will be a digital lecturer's round (tr?sterunde) over Zoom at 10:00-10:30 during the exam. I will add a link to the Zoom room in a message (like this one) on the semester page. You just enter the waiting room via the link and I will admit you one by one. Alternatively, you can also contact me via email and I will try to answer as quickly as possible.

Also, if there turns out to be some ambiguities in the exam text that need clarification, I will add this information to the same message that contains the Zoom link. So, keep an eye on the message board and also try hitting the refresh button a few times during the exam.

As I already mentioned during the exercise session, there will be no coding required in the exam. The problems will be similar to those in the weekly non-coding exercises and P1-P3 in the mandatory assignment (but not fully as complicated as P4). 

Also, there will be a digital "lecturer's round (tr?sterunde)" over Zoom, where you can ask me to clarify things regarding possible ambiguities in the exam text. More info about that will be posted here closer to the exam date.

Proposed solutions to the mandatory assignment are found here and the R script for Problem 5 is found here.

A link to the course curriculum can now be found under resources. This is the material that will be covered in the final exam. If you find something in the list that seems odd, please let me know.

There will be no teaching this week. Next week we will have our final Zoom session on Thursday 27.5 at 9:15, where we will take a look at solutions to some of the problems in the mandatory assignment. As usual, you will find a link to the Zoom room in the schedule.

There are now links to the slides from the presentations in the PGM course seminar in the schedule.

In general, the following guidelines apply in courses at the Department of Mathematics: 
- The examination lasts 4 hours. In addition, you will have an extra 30 minutes to scan and upload your PDF. 
- All examination aids are allowed (e.g. books, online resources, scientific programming tools, etc.). 
- It...

Next week, instead of having a lecture, we will have two exciting presentations on PGM-related topics given by the PhD candidates in the course. The presentations will be on Sparse inverse covariance estimation with the graphical lasso and Template/plate models - Theory and Applications. Note that the seminar will be on Wed 12.5 at 10:15, and it will replace Monday's lecture (10.5). The seminar will be held over Zoom and you will find a link to the event in the schedule (in the same way as for exercise sessions).

This is just a reminder that the submission deadline for the mandatory assignment is tomorrow at 14:30. Note that even if you don't pass on your first attempt, as long as you have made a genuine effort to solve the problems, you will be given a few more weeks to work on your answers and resubmit the report.

The mandatory assignment is now available here. The submission deadline is Thursday 22 April 2021 at 14:30. The report should be submitted through Canvas. Let me know if something is unclear about the specific problems (or if you find some possible typos). I have opened an assignment-specific thread in the Padlet forum. Happy solving!

As a heads-up, I will hand out the mandatory assignment after next week. Note also that there will be a break in the lectures/exercises after next week due to Easter.

Ghadi S. Al Hajj has kindly agreed to be the student representative for this course.

Starting now on Thursday 11.2 at 9:15-10:00, we will do the next few exercise sessions over Zoom. I will write down my solutions beforehand and then briefly explain them during the Zoom session. This should leave some time also for questions/discussion. I will not record the Zoom meetings, but the solutions will (as before) be made available in the exercise section. You will find the link to the Zoom room in the Schedule.

It is about time to select a student representative for this course. If there are any volunteers for this (not-very-demanding:) role, please send me an email.

I have now opened a Padlet forum where you can ask questions (instead of sending an email) and we can discuss all sorts of topics related to this course. This will replace the Q&A section. The link to the forum is found under resources.

The videos for lecture 4 are now available. We finish the chapter on Bayesian networks and start looking at Markov networks.

A few more spots have been (or will be) opened up in the course, if there are some additional students that would like to sign up (note that the DL for signing up is already Feb 1).

You will now find a link to the Q&A section under "Resources".

Following the new regulations by the government, the teaching in this course will be fully digital until further notice. 

Regarding questions, I have received some great ones via email and I will set up a section where I add (some of) these questions along with an answer (or at least an attempt of answering).

The videos and slides of today's lecture are now available. I will give out exercises for Thursday later today.

I have now uploaded videos (links in Schedule) where I go through my solutions for both the textbook exercises and the coding exercise. Links to the handwritten notes and the R script are found in the Exercise section. As always, let me know if you have any questions.

The assignments for the first exercise can now be found under Resources > Exercises. Even though the weekly exercises are not mandatory, I encourage and strongly recommend you to actively work on them during the course. I will present some solutions to the assignments on the Thursday sessions (or I will upload a video when we are in the fully digital mode).

Videos for the first lecture have now been uploaded and you find links to these under ¡°Resources/curriculum¡± under Schedule. The videos should be viewable in any player that supports mp4, but let me know if you have problems with them.