PubH 8472 Homework: Spring 2008 NOTE: "Assigned" and "DUE" dates are *tentative* until confirmed in class! HW# content assigned DUE 1 BCG Ch 1: 3, 6, 7, 8 Thu Wk 1 Thu Wk 2 (1/24) (1/31) 2 BCG Ch 2: 1, 8, 10, 11 Thu Wk 2 Thu Wk 4 (1/31) (2/14) (Use R, not S+; coal ash data is online at www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/data/coal.ash.txt) 3 BCG Ch 3: 2a, 5, 9abcd, 10 Thu Wk 4 Thu Wk 6 (2/14) (2/28) (In problem 5, "nonsingular" should be "positive definite". Also, for problems 9 and 10, use the spdep package in R, not S+, and do as much as you can; see the tutorial at: http://www.biostat.umn.edu/~brad/8472/TA_Lab_hw3_EIREdata.R) 4 BCG Ch 4: 1, 3, 4 Thu Wk 6 Thu Wk 8 (2/28) (3/13) ************** MIDTERM: Thurs Wk 7 (3/6) ****************** 5 BCG Ch 5: 2, 7, 10, 12 Thu Wk 8 Thu Wk 10 (3/13) (4/3) (WinBUGS solution to 7(f) available on course home page; partial solution to 10 available in the back of the book!) 6 BCG Ch 6: 1, 8 Thu Wk 11 Thu Wk 14 BCG Ch 7: 4 (4/10) (5/1) BCG Ch 8: 3 BCG Ch 9: 2a (WinBUGS code for problems 4a and b is on the book's data set page! For problem 2a, the priors I want you to compare are car.normal and car.l1; the code for 2b [not assigned] is in the back of the book!) Projects: talks -- Tue, Thu Wk 15 (5/6, 5/8) writeups -- Thu, Finals Week (5/15, 5:00 pm)