Statistics 6502: Homework 2

Read the handout, Introduction to Survival Analysis:  Censored Data, MLE, invariance

• survival.pdf
• survival.tex (For those of you going onto graduate school, here is the latex file.)
• Write out the solutions for the Example a) b) and c)

Read the Stats Magazing papers on Bayesian Statistics

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

Read the Bayesian Chapters from Suess&Trumbo

• Chapter 8, do problems 8.7, 8.14
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10 ( This draft may be updated next week. )

Read the following Chapter from Rice

• Read Ch. 8, Section 8.6, do problem 66
• Read Ch. 10, do problem 10 and run the following programs and interpret the results.

ECDF and a test for Normality.  Read Sec 10.2.1

• beeswax.dat
• beeswax.R

Plotting survival functions.  Read Sec 10.2.2

• gpig1.dat
• gpig.R
• hepatitis.dat
• hepatitis.R

Density functions.  Read Sec 10.3

• beeswax.dat
• meltpt.R

Nonparametric Bootstrap.  Read Sec 10.4

• npbootstrap.pdf
• npbootstrap.R