Note: Please check this page regularly for class announcements.


3/8 I will not be having office hours next Tuesday (3/13) and will be out of town on Monday and Tuesday so I may not be checking my email regularly. Please contact Yongku Kim if you have any questions or concerns about your final project. Please turn in your final project by 5pm next Tuesday (3/13). You may leave them in my mailbox, in Yongku's mailbox, or with Terry England in Cockins Hall 404.

3/5 While Homework #4 is officially due on Thursday, 3/8, you may turn it in anytime before 5pm on Friday, 3/9, without penalty.

2/27 Slide 7 from today's lecture: slide 7

2/27 Homework #4 (now due on 3/8) is now available on the Homework page.

2/21 Yongku Kim will not be able to have his office hours next Monday (2/27) or Wednesday (3/1). If you would like to meet with him later next week (Thursday or Friday), please send him an email to schedule an appointment.

2/15 If you were not in class today, please download the project description: project-description.pdf

2/15 Midterm Solutions: midterm-solutions.pdf

2/9 The solutions to Homework #3 are now available on the Homework page.

2/8 Practice Midterm (given Winter Quarter 2006): exam, solutions

2/5 While Homework #3 is officially due on Thursday, 2/8, you may turn it in anytime before noon on Friday, 2/9, without penalty. We will not be able to return the assignments until after the midterm exam, so you should make a copy of your assignment if you would like to compare your answers to the solutions posted on the course website.

2/5 The following papers are optional readings on Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms. Both are available from JSTOR.

Casella, G., and George, E.I. (1992). Explaining the Gibbs Sampler. The American Statistician, 46(3), 167-174. JSTOR Link

Chib, S., and Greenberg, E. (1995). Understanding the Metropolis-Hastings Algorithm. The American Statistician, 49(4), 327-335. JSTOR Link

Note: You are NOT responsible for additional material in these papers beyond what is covered in lecture or in the textbook reading assignments.

2/2 TYPO in the schools.r code -- Line #28 should be "theta.j.post.var <- 1/((1/sigma.sq[j])+(1/tau.sq))"

1/31 The solutions to Homework #2 are now available on the Homework page.

1/29 Homework #3 (now due on 2/8) is now available on the Homework page.

1/29 Please notice the schedule changes posted on the Schedule page. The midterm exam will now be on Tuesday, Feb. 13.

1/23 My office hours on Thursday, 1/25, are cancelled (although I will be available for a few minutes after class for quick questions). Please send me an email to set up an appointment if you have any questions about the course material or Homework #2.

1/23 While Homework #2 is officially due on Thursday, 1/25, you may turn it in anytime before 5pm on Tuesday, 1/30, without penalty.

1/23 The solutions to Homework #1 are now available on the Homework page.

1/19 Homework #2 (due on 1/25) is now available on the Homework page.

1/8 An R tutorial has been posted on the Computing page.

1/8 Homework #1 (due on 1/16) is now available on the Homework page.