Tale for loffen

Today, Wed 16 Jan, I gave a general introduction to the course, and also started with material related to Ch 2. You are invited to read (and re-read) Ch 1, which is inside the curriculum, but where I will not go through all of its sections. Wed 23 Jan we continue with Ch 2 material, with these key words: Kullback-Leibler distance, ML and its approximate distribution, practical model fitting in R, AIC formula.

Exercises you should go through for Wed 23 Jan: The book's Exercise 2.1. Then #2 and #4 from Nils Exercises 2011 (see the course webpage for 2011). Regarding R programming for the logL function etc., see the book's Exercise 2.3.