Lecture & Exercises for Thu October 10

1. I'm in Oxford for the first week of October, so there is no teaching for stk 4021 Thu Oct 3:
http://www.stats.ox.ac.uk/Events/corcoran_memorial_lectures

2. For Thu Oct 10, work through as much of the Exam stk 4020 2008 set as you manage. We shall discuss these, first #2, then #3(a)-(e), then #1. Also read through Sections 3.3, 3.4, as these, with MCMC, will be worked with next.

3. Free pizza Tue Oct 8: Nate Silver's Bayesian methods for predicting election results:
http://www.uio.no/studier/emner/matnat/math/STK1110/h13/beskjeder/gaa-paa-populaervitenskapelig-statistikk.html

4. Free cake Tue Oct 15: The Sverdup Prize and distributions of confidence:
https://sites.google.com/site/nsfoslo/forside/diverse/sverdrupprisen-2013

5. Jeg vil sette pris på om den studenten som underveis i undervisningen torsdag 10/10 spurte meg om hierarkiske modeller kan sende meg en mail.