Dear student,

Thank you very much for your application and for your interest in our Master program
in Quantitative Data Science: Psychometrics, Econometrics and Machine Learning
(QDS). Our Master program QDS is a research-oriented program which leads to a
Master of Science (M. Sc.) degree.

To study successfully in our program, applicants/prospective students are expected

to have already a good theoretical knowledge in mathematics as well as
programming and algorithmic skills.

To check your competency profile we need to identify and specify your degree of
competency - which helps you likewise to check (with respect to the other
requirements) if you fit to our program.

Please fill out the following table as honest and comprehensive as possible.
Supplementary sheet for the Master program in QDS.
Please fill in this form completely and upload it!

Family name
Shahzad
First name
Abdullah
Applicant number
(see application form)
529309

In your Bachelor program,

did you have to perform
mathematical proofs
yourself in exercises? If so,
specify up to two brief
example statements you
had to prove.
1. Optimization problem: Minimizing or maximizing an
objective function subject to certain constraints. I used
Lagrange multipliers for this.
2. Regression Analysis: To model a relationship between a
dependent variable and independent variables. I used OLS
for this.

Did you have multivariate

calculus in your Bachelor Derivatives
program? If yes, provide Gradient and directional derivatives
a list of keywords of Optimization
subjects you have done in Multiple integrals
multivariate calculus. Vectors

Provide a list of keywords

Linear equations
of the concepts you know
Matrices
in linear algebra. Vectors
Provide a list of keywords
of the concepts you know
in stochastics and/or None
numerics if available.

What programming
languages do you know?
Rate your level of Python - Intermediate level
experience in each of I have done some Exploratory data analysis and machine
them. If you had software learning projects in python using jupyter notebook such as
project(s), provide the movie recommendation system, spam/ham classification etc.
titles of the project(s).

Provide a list of keywords

of the concepts you had Data structures
in your algorithms and Algorithms
data structures course(s) Regression
(if available). Classification
Gradient Descent
Optimization