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I'm home sick :-(
Lecture will be held next Tuesday November 10th (15-17)
Odd
In the mandatory, i have used color codes in the correction.
Green - means Good
Yellow- means i have a comment.
Orange- There is an error
For the green i do not write a comment. I liked your reply. :-)
Odd
Well done to all.
If you have any questions please ask.
If you have not gotten feedback, the contact me.
Odd
In addition to the exercise.
Your solutions has been recovered.
I will now give you feedback.
If anyone has had problems with the delivery, or are entitled to a delay. Please inform me today by mail (oddkol@math.uio.no), and I will send you message about the way forward. Do not give personal details in the mail.
I will be present in our room NAH 919. To answer questions about the mandatory assignment. 15.15-17.00.
To give you sufficient time to focus on the assignment, the lectures scheduled 6.10 and 8.10 will not take place. Please use this time to work on the assignment. If you have any questions about the assignment please send them to oddkol@uio.no or odd.kolbjornsen@akerbp.com. Answers will be published on the course page. Questions will not be attributed to individuals.
This is published in Canvas, where you should also deliver your solution.
You can find the data files needed on the course web page. The text is also published there.
Sorry for not providing data for Ex 7.24. the data are now in the data folder.
in R:
data <- matrix(scan("cigarette_data4", skip=15), ncol=5, byrow=T)
y <- data[ ,1]
I have gathered some useful distributions in a pdf,
under Supplementary reading. Hope you find this useful.
It might be updated as the course go along.
Note also the section I.1 Statistical models
in the book (partonea_16aug2026.pdf):
Nils has updated the lecture book files. I will update the page references in the syllabus, and lectures shortly.
The 3July2026 files, preliminary versions of various chapters & lots of Statistical Stories from the book-to-be-completed by Hjort and Stoltenberg, will be pushed out and replaced by new & updated versions, becoming then 15Aug2026 files. -- Until then, please read & work away with the 3July2026 files, of course.
Nils Lid Hjort
The course will be lectured using a preliminary version of the book
Statistical Inference:
600 Exercises, 100 Stories, and Solutions
by Nils Lid Hjort and Emil Aas Stoltenberg.
An updated version will be published in July, (promised by Nils).
The versions used last year are here (part 1, part 2), if you would like to have a look.
The syllabus will contain sub-selections from
chapter 1,3,5,7,9 and 14. (part 1), supporting articles
+ exercises
There will be one compulsory/mandatory assignment to be handed in in October.
The mandatory assignment in this course must be approved,
in the same semester, ...