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2018-01-31T23:06:59.452Z
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1. On Jan 30 I went through some basic processes for the Dirichlet process, including existence, big support, the posterior, the marginal distribution of a new sample point, etc. We also discussed the war-and-peace dataset, cf. Nils's FocuStat Blog Post. Use my "com2a" to look more into this, with Dirichelt process priors for the two cumulatives for the battle deaths before and after Vietnam.

2. Next week, still in pre-Olympian modus, we discuss aspects of Ch 2, including density estimation and clustering models.

3. Soon I'll TeX up some Nils Exercises and Lecture Notes (but not this week).

4. Information regarding curriculum and exam project: next week.

5. Exercises for next week are as follows.

(i) Do some more analyses for the war data, including inventing and examining your own interest parameter \delta(F_L, F_R), and with a reasonable setup for the two priors.

(ii) Let P be a Dir(a P_0) on [0,1], with P_0 the uniform, and let \the...