Midterm topics
For the midterm:
- no material beyond the HMM Viterbi algorithm lecture and HW4.
- please bring a calculator.
Range of Topics
Inference
- conditional probability
- chain rule and rearrangement rules
- summation, marginal probability
- Bayes Law, statistical inference
- handling uncertainty and estimating confidence
- log probability calculations
HMM
- definition, diagrams
- transition, emission and prior probabilities
- Viterbi algorithm, computational complexity