exercises for Wed Oct 27

1. The OBLIG is out and needs to be your priority; reports are to be delivered, via the Canvas system of things, within Tue Nov 2.

2. On Wed Oct 20 we went through various MCMC matters, with Metropolis, briefly Metropolis-Hastings, and saw it applied for fnding magic squares (!); see my script com100d, and play with it, to construct yet further squares with yet further magical patterns. We also discussed Ch 5 hierarchical setups.

3. For Wed Oct 27 we do Exam stk4020 2008, Exercise 3, with joint inference for an ensemble of unifomity parameters.