Topic outline

  • Passing the course

    You can choose the 3, 5 or 6 credit version of the course:

     

    3 credits

    • Lectures, exercises, and a final examination
    • Final grade: examination 100 %

     

    5 credits

    • Lectures, exercises, a final examination AND a computer assignment with real data, done in a group of 2-3 persons or alone (Python, R, Julia, Matlab, VBA). The computer assignment will be given in the end of the 5th lecture.
    • Final grade: approximately: examinations 80 %, assignment 20 %. This means that your final grade is basically determined by the examination(s). However, a very good assignment can affect positively your final grade if you would have needed 1-2 points more from the examination(s) for a better grade.
    • Assume that you got A points from the examination. With A points, the final grade would be 3. For the final grade 4, you would have needed A+2 points. Luckily, your computer assignment is very good. This good assignment rises the final grade to 4.
    • Assume that you made the assignment with a friend who got A-3 points from the examination. His final grade is also 3.  He would have needed as much as 5 points more to get the final grade 4. Five points is so much that even an excellent computer assignment cannot rise the final grade to 4.  

     

    6 credits

    • Same as 5 credit version + written assignment (6-10 pages). The topic of the assignment can be chosen quite freely. The written assignment does not effect on the final grade. 
    • You don’t need to decide in advance which version of the course (3, 5, or 6 cr) you take.