Exercises for Mon Sept 15: ¡­

Exercises for Mon Sept 15:

Nils Exercises: 7, 8.

Extra: (a) Generate ten data points from a Poisson with true mean 13.13. (b) Start with a Gamma prior (0.07, 0.07) for the mean parameter theta. Monitor how the posterior density is changing, from the 1st to the 2nd to the 3rd ... to the 10th data point, by doing the mathematics and writing a simple computer programme (e.g. in R).

From Ch 1, Exercise 9. From Ch 2, Exercises 1, 4, 10.