2 Day 2 (January 25)

2.1 Announcements

• Journals are due 24 hours after every lecture ends.

• Journal grades are posted. Remember to answer the question in the 3 prompts.

• Please read (and re-read) Chs. 1-2 in BBM2L before class next week

• Activity 1 is posted

• Donuts and meeting your peers

  • Opportunity for 2 magical extra credit points
  • Bring computer to work on Activity 1

• Selected questions from journals

  • What is a derived quantity?

  • Why use the delta method? Other options?

  • When/how to select between different methods (e.g., least squares vs. maximum likelihood)

  • Why didn’t I cover method of moments estimation?

  • Bayesian stats seems more intuitive/easier. Is it?

  • How much should I read the book?

  • p-values from summary function in R?

  • Fixed vs. random?

  • How to choose a model/distribution?

• Finish up day 1 notes