Assignments for 2025
- For Friday, September 5, 2025, read
- For Wednesday, September 10, 2025, read
- For Wednesday, September 17, 2025, read
- For Wednesday, September 24, 2025, read
- For Friday, September 26, 2025, read
- For Monday, September 29, 2025, read
- For Monday, October 6, 2025, read
- second course notes about maximum likelihood estimation.
- Agresti, Chapter 4 and the course notes accompanying it.
- For Friday, October 10, 2025, read
- Agresti, Section 1.6.
- the course notes on Bayes via Markov chain Monte Carlo.
- For Friday, October 31, 2025, read (we got behind on reading assignments)
- Agresti, Sections 8.1 and 8.2 and the course notes accompanying them.
- Agresti, Sections 4.3.3 and 4.7 and the course notes accompanying them, which are about overdispersion (quasilikelihood).
- course notes about exponential families of distributions.
- For Wednesday, November 5, 2025, read
- Agresti, Sections 9.1 through 9.4 and Sections 1 through 5 of the course notes accompanying them.
- For Friday, November 7, 2025, read
- For Monday, November 10, 2025, read
- For Friday, November 14, 2025, read
- For Monday, November 17, 2025, read
- notes on models at infinity or what to do when the MLE for canonical parameters does not exist.
- For Monday, December 1, 2025, read
- Chapter 11 in Agresti and the notes to accompany that.
- For Friday, December 5, 2025, read
- For Wednesday, December 10, 2025, read
- Chapter 13 in Agresti and
- notes on random effects models.
