We've nearly concluded Ch 3 ¡­

We've nearly concluded Ch 3 and will start Ch 4 next week, where only Sections 4.1-4.2 are inside the curriculum.

For March 15, do Exercise 9/2009, where you also compute the BIC score and associated posterior model probabilities; conclude Examples 3.6 by also including the 3rd model that simply keeps thetaA, thetaB, thetaAB, thetaO as unknown parameters; and finally set up a framework for comparing survival analysis models of the type hi(t) = exp(beta0 + xi'beta), complete with an implementation that gives ML analysis along with AIC and BIC scores. As test data set for your programmes, try the "primary biliary cirrhosis" one from the book's website.