Latent variable models for ecology and biology

The course is based on a book that we are writing currently with Stéphane Robin and Pierre Gloaguen. Before the book is ready, you will find some useful slides below. Note that I won’t always stick to these documents and may change some stuff.

Ressources

Last update on 18/02/25

Chapitre	Slides	Illustration	Ressources
Chap 1 : Latent variable models and EM		Adelie Penguins	Files
Chap 2 : Explicit E step		Bohemia Vegetation	Files
		Barents fishes	Files
		Exercice on Poisson Mixture	Correction
Chap 3 : Non explicit E step (HMM)		To come
Chap 4 : Approximated E step (Variational EM)	Complete course	Parasitism Ecological network
Chap5 : A gentle introduction to Variational probabilistic Autoencoder
Chap 6 : Bayesien inference of Latent variable models		MCMC versus VEM on Poisson mixture	Files