1. Today we went through …
1. Today we went through Nils Exercises 21, 14, and Exam 2010 Exercises 1, 2. We also discussed general MCMC issues.
2. Exercises for Wed Oct 17: The final two points of Exam 2010 Exercise 2; the Abel stamp Exercise 2 of Exam 2008; and then the following addendum to the Gott würfelt nicht exercise Nils #14: Find the posterior distributions of the four parameters rho, alpha, beta, gamma given there, when the prior used for (p1, ..., p6) is an equal mixture between pefectness (the p vector is really (1/6, ..., 1/6)) and the flat Dirichlet (1,1,1,1,1,1).
3. I intend to go somewhat quickly through Ch 4, Section 1 (and the other sections of Ch 4 are not in the curriculum list) and to start on Ch 5.
4. A few R scripts will be uploaded to the course page shortly. These relate to exercises we've recently been through, in particular MCMC constructions.