21-25 September 2026
NCBJ (Pasteura 7, Warsaw)
Europe/Warsaw timezone

Probability and Statistics: a primer

21 Sep 2026, 10:00
1h 30m
207, second floor (NCBJ (Pasteura 7, Warsaw))

207, second floor

NCBJ (Pasteura 7, Warsaw)

ul. L. Pasteura 7 02-093 Warszawa Poland

Speaker

Carlo Schimd (LAM)

Description

This lecture will cover the following topics:

  • probability space, random variables and random vectors, probability distributions, expectation values, variance and covariance.

  • Poisson noise, Gaussian noise, multiplicative noise: examples from electronic signals, electromagnetic spectra, images. Maximum likelihood estimators. Noise suppression and features detection: equalisation; linear and non-linear operations; filtering, smoothing, sharpening; Savitzky-Golay filter, bilateral filter, median filter, sigma-clipping.

  • Classification: Principal component analysis (PCA), kernel PCA, dimensional reduction.

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