Note: All assignments will be due
at the beginning of class.
January 11, 2016 : a1-2016.pdf
correct of Q4 last
line :
more or less close to the true value .2 (note that the .2 was written as .3 in the
original posting)
January 27, 2016 : a2-2016.pdf
and the whales data from Rice whales.txt
Assignment 2 due date changed to February
8, 2016 to accommodate other students term tests.
February 24, 2016 : a3-2016.pdf
DUE DATE 9 MARCH 2016 (Wednesday)
Since many students have
term tests on Thursday and or Friday of this week, the due date for Assignment
3 will be changed to MONDAY 14 March, 2016.
Some R scripts to simulate
and to calculate the value of sufficient statistics for a 2 state Markov chain
2stateMCeg.txt or 2stateMC.R . These have the same code; one is a text file
and the other is an Rscript file.
March 18, 2016 :
March 30, 2016 : A final but
optional assignment with Bayesian questions.
Hand in at the beginning of the exam.
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Assignments
from the previous year.
January 14, 2015 : a1-2015.pdf
January 26, 2015 : a2-2015.pdf
Whales data whales.txt read this data into your R session by
Save the file whales.txt to your R working
directory and then in your R session read in the data using
whales =
scan(“whales.txt”)
Feb 25, 2015
: a3-2015.pdf This includes one question on MLE for a two
state Markov chain which is not discussed in the text.
Since most of the actuarial
students in this class have another term test on March 11, 2015 the due date
for Assignment 3 is changed to March 13, 2015.
March 24, 2015 : a4-2015.pdf
For the Mann Whitney data question, use the data from problem 11.6.40
R script for the non
parametric bootstrap A4-scripthandout-2015.r and the data set of North Carolina births
used in the bootstrap application NCBirths2004.csv
March 18, 2016 : a4-2016.pdf
Assignment 4 will use two
questions from tha April 2012 exam. April2012-notlongsheet.pdf