8. Homework project

Homework exercise (200 points):

Choose a scientific question and dataset of your own and implement a suitable Bayesian workflow to answer your question. Alternatively, you may design an experiment to answer your question, and work with simulated data. Separate your working into the following topics:

• Problem statement

• Model building

• Model checking

• Model development

• Model comparison (optional)

• Experiment design (optional)

• Conclusions

You are free to choice any topic, but a few options are also given below.

Example topics

• Studying the evolution of cosmic star formation with galaxy data: https://astrostatistics.psu.edu/datasets/COMBO17.html

• Solar cycle and sun spot forecasting: https://wwwbis.sidc.be/silso/datafiles

• To be continued…

If you have a question/dataset of interest but aren’t sure of a dataset/question to match, then ask to discuss! Questions can be sent to f.capel@tum.de.