An Important Change In My Life

I finished my Master’s Degree in Statistics at State University of Campinas on April 15, 2021 – during the pandemic. I went to Campinas in March 2019 and stayed there for one year and two months.

Like all changes in life the first year was complicated. Several times I thought to give up. But now, passed almost one year, I realized that I learn many things. It was a good time.

After a long time I don’t write new post, I am gathering some contents that I learned during my Master Degree’s to spread out in a series of posts. Particularly, in this series I will write about the following:

• Course of Intermediate Probability
• Course of Statistical Inference
• Course of Data Mining
• Seminar of Bayesian Dynamic Linear Model
• Seminar of Probability and Statistics
• My dissertation

Master Degree’s in Statistics at Unicamp

The first year I had three mandatory courses, namely Probability, Statistical Inference, and Statistical Methods. These courses provide a common and important theoretical background for the student. More technical details about the courses I will give in the next posts.

In order to obtain my Master’s Degree I must to be approved in the Masters Qualification Exam. The Exam consists of two written tests about the contents of the Probability and Statistical Inference courses. The tests are very difficult and I remember to solve at least one exercise by day. For interested readers the previous Mastes Qualification Exams can be found here (in Portuguese).

I also must to obtain at least 22 credits in courses. Among the courses I did, the most interesting were: Course of Data Mining, Seminar of Bayesian Dynamic Linear Models, and Seminar of Probability and Statistics.

In the last year, I focusing on researching, codding, and writing my dissertation. I studied statistical methods for single cell RNA-seq (scRNA-seq) data modeling. I was supervised by professor Benilton de Sá Carvalho, and it was an amazing experience for my researcher career.

I want to finish this post with a direct quotation of Lennon-McCartney song In My Life, which I think suits very well my feeling:

There are places I’ll remember
All my life, thought some have change
Some forever, some not for better
Some have gone and some remain