Exercises for Wed Mar 27

1. On Wed Mar 20 I went, somewhat quickly, through the last parts of Chapter 5, and tended to Nils exercises 7 and 9. The last part of the course corresponds to Chapters 6 and 7, and we start with Chapter 6, FICology de Lux, next week.

2. Exercises: find the Exam set for 2013, and work through as much as possible of Exercises 1 and 3. To illustrate part of the story of Exercise 3, simulate n = 400 points from the model f(y, \theta, \gamma), with \theta = 3.333 and \gamma = 1 + 1.444/\sqrt{n}. Estimate the median of the distribution, under the narrow and the wide model, along with confidence intervals. For this median parameter, which of the three estimators worked with in the exercise appears to be the best?