Welcome to Math 6040/7260: Linear Models. Here is some essential information to get started with Math 6040/7260.
Class webpage
Please bookmark and visit the course webpage frequently for the most updated information: https://tulane-math-7260-2025.github.io/.
Lecture format
I will deliver lectures in Commons 337 (Newcomb Institute) on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays (Mon/Wed/Fri 1:00 pm - 1:50 pm). Friday classes will consist a mixture of lectures (first 2 to 3 weeks) and practical lab sessions. Lectures will include presentation slides and questions.
Attendance
I do require attendance. However, reasonable absence will not be punished.
Grades
There will be one mid-term and one final exam. There will be roughly 4 sets of homework problems.
All graduate students are required to deliver a 15-min talk (10 min presentation + 5 min questions) on one of the following topics (secure yours before others do). You may suggest a topic outside of the pool too. Undergraduate students are encouraged to participate too with bonus 5 points towards the final score.
| Math-6040 | Math-7260 | |
|---|---|---|
| Homework | 40% | 30% |
| Mid-term exam | 30% | 30% |
| Final exam | 30% | 30% |
| Presentation | 5% (bonus) | 10% |
Topic pools
The topics are given by key words only. Please practice your ability of “educated” searches with google.
- Software key words: stan, bugs & jags, hadoop, spark, tensorflow, Scikit-Learn, Blas & Lapack
- Stastician key words: Harold Hotelling, Joseph Leo Doob, Bradley Efron, Abraham Wald, William Cochran, Sheldon M. Ross, Emile Borel, R. A. Fisher
- Research areas: Bayesian Statistics, Approximate Bayesian Computation, Sequential Monte Carlo method, Variational Bayes, Spatial statistics, Large language models from machine learning
- Method key words: Gradient descent algorithm, Fast Fourier transform algorithm, Expectation-maximization algorithm, Metropolis-Hastings algorithm, Markov-chain Monte Carlo, Hamiltonian Monte Carlo, Hidden Markov Models, Genome-wide Association Studies,
- Parallel computing: OpenCL, Cuda, SIMD (SSE + AVX)
- Other: COPSS Presidents’ Award, International Prize in Statistics