1. Today we started Ch ¡­

1. Today we started Ch 5 and went through various details regarding empirical Bayes, specifically for the model that involves binomial data for similar probability parameters and a Beta distribution model for these. We continue Ch 5 next week.

2. Exercises for Wed Oct 31: The rest of the Egyptian life times, Exam stk 4020 2008 #3. Then #1 from the same set. Finally start also Exam stk 4020 2004 #1.