1. Today I formulated, discussed, ¡­

1. Today I formulated, discussed, proved & illustrated the Master Theorem about Bayes procedures, pertaining to their optimality property for given data, model, loss function. We also went through Exercises #1(a)-(d) (2010) and #1 (2008). I'll put up the R code I used for the Poisson data exercise rather soon.

2. Exercises for Sept 15: as far as we get on this list: #1(e) from 2010 (with numerical integration), then #2, 3, 4(e), 6 from the 2008 collection. You should go through also points (a)-(d) of Exercise 4, and make sure you understand the relevant details, but we shall only do point (e) in class.

3. Next week I'll proceed lecturing with material that is becoming increasingly though not fully correlated with the book's Ch 2.