Statistics 6502: Homework 1

Read the Stats Magazing papers on Bayesian Statistics

• Bayesian.pdf
• Hierarchical.pdf
• Gibbs.pdf  Gibbs

Read the Bayesian Chapters from Suess&Trumbo

• Chapter 8, do problems 8.7, 8.14
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10

Bayes - The theory that wouldn't die

WinBUG

• the movie!

Read the following Chapter from Rice

• Read Ch. 8, Section 8.6, do problem 66
• Review Ch. 3, review problem 24 ( redo the problem if you do not remember doing it )

Try these Bayesian programs in OpenBUGS

• Simple Bayesian Examples
  • NormalNormal.odc NormalNormaldoodle.odc Estimate the mean of a Normal distribution with known variance.
  • BetaBinomial.R BetaBinomial.odc BetaBinomialdoodle.odc  Estimate the population proportion from a Binomial sample.
  • GammaPoisson.odc GammaPoissondoodle.odc  Estimate the rate of a Poison Distribution.
• WinBUGS Examples
  • pumps.odc
  • pumps.odc

Some good books about Bayesian Statistics

• Doing Bayesian Data Analysis: A Tutorial with R and BUGS
• The Signal and the Noise