Exercises for Friday November 2

  • On Friday the 26th of October I discussed the rest of Chapter 5 (Hierarchical models) with particular emphasis on the Normal model which is the topic of Section 5.4. As last time, I spent some time on the Empirical Bayes solution in that setting. In addition, I used an extension of a similar hierarchical model as a demonstration of Gibbs sampling (the example in Section 11.6). See R-script giving code for the example that was discussed in the lecture. Exam Project 2015 exercise 2 was discussed, and served as another demonstration of hierarchical models (with geometrically distributed data).
  • Next Friday I will continue with the last topic of the course Loss, Risk and a bit of decision theory. There will only be two hours of lecture/exercises next time, since I am giving a seminar talk at BI.
  • Remember to hand in the Mandatory assignment!
  • An extra exercise session: I propose to organise an extra exercise session before the exam. This will take place at some time between the 10th and the 19th of December. I will make a doodle where you can select between some proposed dates and times. 
  • Check out R-scripts for Exam Project 2015 exercise 2 and for the "Four diets" example. The diet data are found on page 288 in the book (and also in the R-script).
  • Exercises:
    • Exercise 1 from the exam in 2017 (four hours exam)
    • All exercises from previous weeks (if you have not done them yet). Remember that all exercises that have been given in the course are considered as part of the curriculum.
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