Semester page for STK9200 - Spring 2021

The course consists by definition of "reading good papers", and the exam, June 201, will indeed consist of candidates being given papers to present (more details later, also on these practical matters).

We'll do *some* "classic papers", papers statisticians should know about even if they're outside their main fields of interest, and also *modern PhD project relevant papers*. These latter ones should be published papers in journals, though, not the latest tech report from a famous scholar.

We meet Tue Jan 19, in B 819, to discuss and decide on things. I do believe we'll be relatively few this semester, so we can define this first meeting as indeed "a meeting", with 1.5 m distance etc.   

And here's our first paper: the ultraclassic Efron 1979, the start of bootstrap, and also giving kilograms of additional eternal fame to the already famous Efron.

https://projecteuclid.org/download/pdf_1/euclid.aos/1176344552

1. The time schedule given us by the system says Tue 12-14 and Wed 9-10, both in Undervisningsrom 819, 8th floor. We will be somewhat flexible regarding this time schedule, and will not be using 2 + 1 hours for all weeks, so to speak. Due to the korona situation, there will be no teaching Jan 12-13, so the real start of the course becomes Jan 19-20 (by zoom, if necessary).

2. This is a course consisting of *reading journal papers*, see the first message, and the selection of papers will depend on you, the students. There might be a mix of "classic papers" and some tailored to your own PhD projects.

3. Please send me a mail, within Fri Jan 15, where you briefly tell me about your PhD projects and general research interests, so that we can plan and find relevant papers.

4. Semi-independent of your own projects and interests, there will be a few "classic papes" on our reading list. The first of these, which you need to find, print out, and rea...

Welcome to the course -- which is a different type of course than the usual ones. It consists in *reading a selection of journal papers*, where the students, or is it candidates, present them to the class, with discussion and supplementing information, etc. 

We'll use the first couple of weeks, as the course starts in January 2021, to set up such a list of papers to be read, and a bit later on these are assigned to the different students. It's not meant to be a "free ride" for the others, as all students are meant to work through all papers. For the exam, student X, who has presented papers A, B, C in the course, might be asked to present papers D, E, so to speak.

By definition we come back to various practicalities later. Have a look at the course page for previous occasions, to get a feel for how things are structured. 

In a sense I'll be more of "an administrator" than a "lecturer", for this course, but of course there might be...