Exercises for Wed Jan 23

1. On Wed Jan 16 I gave a broad general introduction to the course. The curriculum is essentially Ch 1 (but "read only"), Ch 2, Ch 3, Ch 4 (but only 4.1, 4.2), Ch 5, Ch 6 (not all of it), Ch 7 (the first four sections), Ch 9 (mostly "read through").

2. You all need to get hold of the Claeskens and Hjort (2008) book.

3. I've placed Nils Lecture Notes & Exercises collection at the course website; print it out.

4. I've placed a simple R script com11a on the website; try it, run it, understand it, change small things and see what happens, copy and modify.

5. For Wed Jan 23, do Nils Exercises 4, 2. Use the com11a for the gamma(a,b) model, and amend and modify etc. to make programmes for the other models. For each, do simple analysis for the F^(-1)(0.50) and F^(-1)(0.80) quantiles, and compute logLmax and AIC values.