Getting started

To obtain the Zoom link to the course, you need to run a jupyter notebook and pass the questionaire below.

Notebook

The jupyter notebook is here:

• use this link https://mybinder.org/v2/gh/JohannesBuchner/PracticalInferenceForResearchersInThePhysicalSciencesCourse/main

  • It takes a while to start up.

  • open 0Preliminaries.ipynb in the work/ folder

• Alternative: If you want to work on your own computer:

  • Download the notebook (.ipynb file) from the link above or the github repository

  • Install the necessary packages as explained in Install

Questionaire

To join the course, you need to fill out the following questionaire:

Imports

Output of print(len(dir(...) ... )) command? (should be a integer)

Narrow uniform distribution

What is the integral over the probability density?

Gaussian distribution

Integrated probability between 1.44 and 1.56?

0.8632 0.9953 0.9973 0.9993 1.0000

Generating random numbers

What is the 99% quantile (99th percentile) of this distribution?

0.8975 1.2383 1.2222 1.5518 0.1732

Random walk

Is the resulting distribution the same, narrower or wider than the proposal distribution?

narrower same wider