Monte Carlo [exam]
My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on...continue reading.
My final exam for the Monte Carlo course I taught last semester proved too much of a challenge for my fourth year students, despite being rather elementary and centred on...continue reading.
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When looking for a copula I could simulate from (rather than the Gaussian copula), I found an algorithm for the Ali–Mikhail–Haq copula that was proposed by Kumar (2010) as reproduced...continue reading.
Strangely enough, I became aware of this new book on mixtures through one of these annoying emails “Your work has been cited n times this week“… Mixture Models (Parametric, Semiparametric,...continue reading.
For any positive, base-10 integer N, define f(N) as the number of times you have to add up its digits until you get a one-digit number. Find the smallest whole...continue reading.
One of the students’ requests I almost invariably reject is code debugging (and they are warned about it from the start). Here is an illustration why, with an R code...continue reading.
Statistical Modeling with R (A dual frequentist and Bayesian approach for life scientists) is a recent book written by Pablo Inchausti, from Uruguay. In a highly personal and congenial style...continue reading.
A riddle on a form of a Galton-Watson process, starting from a single unit, where no one dies but rather, at each of 100 generations, Dog either opts for a...continue reading.
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Since the solution to the previous riddle from The Riddler on the maximum of different terms in the composed operation a∅b∅c∅d∅e∅f depending on the bracketing ordering and the meaning of...continue reading.
A riddle from The Riddler on how many different numbers one could at most produce from six initial values and the four basic operations. In other words, how many values...continue reading.
A Riddler puzzle on the three binary and sequential questions one should ask three players hiding their respective U(0,1) realisation, U, V, and W, to best guess which player holds...continue reading.
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When interviewing impressive applicants from a stunning variety of places and background for fellows in our Data Science for Social Good program (in Warwick and Kaiserslautern) this summer, we came...continue reading.
Hey, JAGS users and would-be users, be warned that registration is now open for the annual JAGS workshop on probabilistic modelling for cognitive science. The tenth instalment of this workshop...continue reading.
A combinatorics puzzle from The Riddler about a Napoli solitaire where 4 x 10 cards numbered from 1 to 10 are shuffled and the game is lost when a number...continue reading.
While it sounds like the title of a science-fiction catastrophe novel or of a (of course) convoluted nouveau roman, this book by Nick Huntington-Klein is a massive initiation to econometrics...continue reading.
The New Year Riddle is about optimisation: starting with a single machine, between delivering one unit per machine – hour and delivering one new machine per machine every six days,...continue reading.
As I finished grading our undergrad math stats exam (in Paris Dauphine) over the weekend, which was very straightforward this year, the more because most questions had already been asked...continue reading.
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