E1. To be completed after lesson 5

Exercise 1.1

What is marginalization? Why do we want to compute marginalized posteriors?

Exercise 1.2

Indicate if each of the following statements makes sense and say why or why not.

  1. I will attempt to find a prior distribution that is conjugate to the likelihood I have constructed in my generative model.

  2. I will attempt to find a likelihood distribution that is conjugate to my prior.

Exercise 1.3

What is the curse of dimensionality and how did it appear in the last few lessons?

Exercise 1.4

Write down any questions or points of confusion that you have.