1. On Wed Sep 12 ¡­

1. On Wed Sep 12 we in essence rounded off Ch 2, though a few details still remain, including Jeffreys prior (pp. 39, 99), which we shall have occasion to work with and use later. We also went through Nils Exercises 15, 13/2008.

2. Nils is in USA Sep 19 (at a university older than USA) and in England Sep 26. There will be no teaching on Wed Sep 19, but Geir Storvik will be my stand-in for Wed Sep 26. He will lecture on topics of Ch 3 (details to be provided in a little while), and also go through Exercises 2.19, 2.20(a) from the book. For 2.20(a), invent your own informative prior from the Gamma-Normal family, and if convenient use variations of the R script "com10a".

3. I plan to round off our going through of Ch 3 on Wed 3 Oct. From Ch 3, Sections 1, 2, 3 are curriculum, along with subsections 3.4.1, 3.4.2 from Section 4.