STAT 946Topics in Probability and Statistics

May 16, 2024 I swear the STAT advisors are hostile to anyone wanting to go above and beyond with their statistics education .. 48 points, 41 comments

“Riley strikes back against higher stats education yet again. Tried to override into a STAT 900 course since it seemed interesting, would help with grad admissions, and I did extremely well in the …”

u/mreifslp: “Did you email the prof first or just Riley directly? Just wondering cause I'm also hoping to take a STAT 9XX at some point.”

u/Bid_Queasy: “… Source: was able to override into STAT 902 and 946 after 2 years of being told no by stats advisors.”

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Jun 17, 2023 How difficult to keep 75% average in MDSAI program? 5 points, 8 comments

u/positivity_nerd: “I have taken/ am taking some of those courses in my undergraduate. I would say they are easy to get high marks but require a lot of work and mathematical maturity. …”

u/positivity_nerd: “… Most math heavy ones would be CO courses especially convex optimization, then all the ML courses like cs 480, stat 946, 441”

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Dec 24, 2021 Rstudio 3 points, 7 comments

“I am a visiting student at UWaterloo and want audit R-studio course for winter 2022. Any suggestion Please”

u/heartuary: “Stat 946 is R course next term :)”

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Sep 27, 2021 STAT 946 review 3 points, 4 comments

u/Majestic-Fortune1441: “Anyone here ever took STAT 940. Mind to share their experience for this course?”

u/RegressionBae: “You will have to be more specific, as STAT 946 is the umbrella for all topics courses. Which topic are you referring to?”

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Aug 23, 2021 MMATH Statistics success stories 2 points, 6 comments

“Hi there, any ex MMath Statistics graduates out there to share their experience on the course and career outlook?”

u/East_Tax9634: “… I took STAT841, STAT946 and STAT938 as my electives, and did research on an insurance related topic. I got interviewed for positions like data scientist, data analyst, credit risk analyst, counter-party credit risk analyst and etc. I ended up being in quantitative risk advisory. …”

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May 13, 2021 Has anyone taken STAT946: Deep Learning online? 2 points, 0 comments

u/CramerzRule: “How was the course? What was the grade breakdown? TIA”

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Jan 23, 2021 CS680 or STAT946? 0 points, 9 comments

u/ragnas_si: “Which one should I go with?”

u/RegressionBae: “There are several topics under STAT 946 this term. Which one are you referring to?”

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Jan 23, 2021 CS680 or STAT946? 0 points, 0 comments

u/ragnas_s: “Between CS680 and STAT946 which one would you recommend? I know that both of them are amazing grad courses which makes choosing one over the other is proving to be quite difficult.”

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Jan 21, 2021 Stat 847 6 points, 7 comments

“Does anybody have the Stat 847 course outline for this term?”

u/lickmydoodoo: “Came to double check if it actually started with an 8”

u/heartuary: “Yes, it starts with 8 cuz it’s a grad stat course. My biggest number is STAT946.”

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Nov 9, 2020 I taught Stat 231 in Winter 2020, AMA 85 points, 31 comments

“I took Stat 231 in 2015 when I was still in double degree. Later dropped into math finance but finally graduated with stats degree. …”

u/LuK413: “Can I get some advice for breaking into ML industry? Is it just projects?”

u/ilia10000: “… Plus undergrads are sometimes allowed into grad level topics courses like Stat 946 and these often include cool topics like Deep Learning.”

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May 2, 2020 What are your top 5 courses at Waterloo? 29 points, 43 comments

“After 3 years of this place, these were my favourite courses that I found (no particular order): CS 341 CS 251 MATH 135 MATH 239 ENGL 332 (Comics) I liked CS 341, MATH 135, and MATH 239 because they …”

u/Euphoric_Reference: “1. PMATH 370: Chaos and Fractals 2. PMATH 950: Fractal Geometry 3. PMATH 990: Free Probability Theory 4. STAT 946: Stochastic Differential Equations 5. STAT 901 & 902: Probability Theory I & II”

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Mar 5, 2019 Stochastic Differential Equations 6 points, 7 comments

“Hi, next year I'll come to wateroo as visiting graduate student, I'm looking for a class to replace my courses on Stochastic Differential Equations and Bayesian Statistic Any suggestions?”

[deleted]: “SDEs is only offered as a topics course (STAT 946), but I think it will be offered again when you're here. If you want to be sure, you can ask (email) Professor Yi Shen, who teaches the SDE course. We don't really have courses in Bayesian stats as far as I know.”

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