Exercises for Mon 18 April

I take part in the BFF conference (Bayesian, Frequentist, Fidicual; Best Friends Forever) at Rutgers April 11-13, incidentally giving a lecture based on CLP material. There is therefore no teaching Mon April 11.

For Mon April 18, work through exercises 7.1, 7.3, 7.5, 7.9. Concentrate on becoming familiar with two of the central methods of Chapter 7: t-bootstrapping and Bartletting the deviance function. Check out how these two methods work when n datapoints are observed from the normal (\mu,\sigma^2), where the focus parameter is \psi = \mu + 0.675 \sigma, the upper quartile.

I'm uploading R scripts com17a (birds on island) and com18a (cc for gamma parameter a) to the site. Check these, and try extensions and alternatives, e.g. when it comes to CD for the \tau parameter for the birds.