Thanks to all candidates for their work & efforts regarding The Project, alias the Exam, Part I. Now for the Exam, Part II, four hours, Mon December 17th, 14:30 to 18:30, in Gymsal 4, Idrettsbygningen. You should bring along one simple-style calculator (i.e. without heavy memory capacity etc.) for just a few simple calculations to be carried out; also as previously explained you are allowed to take along precisely one page of handwritten preparation notes, prepared by yourself. Good luck!, and thanks a priori and a posteriori for your efforts.
We expect the results of the exam to be made available to the central StudentWeb registry by Fri December 28.
Important: For the four-hour written Exam Part II Mon Dec 17, please bring with you (a) an ordinary pocket calculator and (b) exactly one page of handwritten preparation notes, prepared by yourself as you wish with whatever you feel might be useful for for the exam. You may write as tinily as you wish, but for this Exam Part II you are not allowed to use the course book or any other material.
For an example of how such an exam set may look like, check the 2006 exam set under http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/math/STK4020/oppgaver/
Important: I have now uploaded Andrew Gelman's 2008 article "Objections to Bayesian Statistics" to this course website, taken from the "Bayesian Analysis" online journal, along with discussion contributions by Jose Bernardo, Jay Kadane, Stephen Senn, Larry Wasserman, and Gelman's rejoinder (Gelman is himself a prominent Bayesian, but chose nevertheless to air some of his objections to Bayesian practice in this manner). All students may benefit from sifting through these, but this particular message is primarily directed to the PhD students who are taking the STK 9020 version of the exam. All students shall work with Exercise 1, 2, 3 from the Exam Set 3-Dec to 14-Dec, but the PhD students are also required to work on Exercise 4.
This last Exercise 4 is as follows: Read through the Gelman 2008 paper and ensuing discussion, and write up a short essay (perhaps three pages?) where you...