Examination and grading

This course is awarded 7.5 ECTS upon passing. We therefore expect you to invest a total of approximately 210 hours, which means that apart from attending classes you are required to spend around 20 hours a week(!) on preparing and evaluating classes, working on the practical assignments, training (making exercises), and generally preparing for the exam.

The course will be graded based on practical assignments and a written exam. Final grades will be registered in OSIRIS; partial grades will be communicated through Brightspace's gradecenter.

Practical assignments

The practical assignments are homework assignments, each consisting of a number of questions and exercises, partly to be answered using a Bayesian network software tool and partly through probabilistic programming.

The practical assignments are done in pairs or in groups of three. We assume that all partners contribute equally to the submitted answers to each and every question. To demonstrate comprehension, you should formulate your answers in your own words, even if other sources (physical or digital) have been consulted. You should cite any sources or tools that you used outside those required for the course.

To enable fair assessment of your skills and understanding, submitted assignments cannot contain answers copied from someone else, or somewhere else, without due acknowledgement of the sources or tools used -- this is fraud or plagiarism. Committing fraud or plagiarism can have dire consequences. This also holds for anyone who knowingly and wilfully enables fraud or plagiarism (i.e. by posting solutions, leaving them lying around or on screen, etc). See Art. 5.14 - fraud and plagiarism of the Education and Examination Regulations (OER) of the Graduate School of Natural Sciences (GSNS).


Written test ('tentamen')

To pass the course, you are required to take the written test and demonstrate an in-depth understanding of and insight in the subjects treated; this in turn require fluency in the pre-requisite topics. Details of what is expected of you can be found in the studymanual (syllabus) (available on Brightspace). A link to former written tests can be found on the assignments page (under exercises); note that most exercises in the Lecture Notes are also former exam questions!

The exact date, time and location of the written test can be found in MyTimetable.
The test is 'closed-book', i.e. you cannot use the lecture notes, slides or any digital sources during the test. However, you are allowed to bring a 'cheat-sheet', under the following conditions. The 'cheat-sheet' is: Note that Pearl's formulas will always be provided with the test (see an example of the formulasheet you will receive with your test).

You are strongly advised to bring a calculator to the test (no mobile phone, tablet/laptop computer etc!).

Grading

For details about grading and re-examination conditions, see the studymanual/syllabus on Brightspace.

Note that the re-examinations are in January; the exact date, time and location will appear in MyTimetable.