Semester page for STK4160 - Spring 2017

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Thanks for your efforts with the four-hour exam part, June 2. The Exam Project is now on the course website, with deadline Mon June 19, 11:59, to the reception room at the Department of Mathematics, in duplicate, please.

Note that each report should include two special pages (cf. the text, page 1). *Page A* is the self-declaration form (basically saying that yes, I've done this myself, without cooperation with others, and yes, when I've found material somewhere, I give references). *Page B* is a one-page summary of how you've worked with the project (what you found complicated, or easy, or inspiring, or challenging), and also a brief self-assessment of its quality.

Good luck with your work.

Nils Lid Hjort

June 7, 2017 10:21 AM

teaching Fri May 26

On Tue May 16 I first spoke a bit on the (perhaps surprisingly dominant) role of model selection issues and the grander discussions of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission in Bled, Slovenia, May 10-14, where Celine Cunen and I took part, Moby-FIC-ing away. I then went through Nils Exercises 15 and 19, and discussed issues of Ch 7.

As I also explained, I & all other model selectors at the 8th floor will be busy with FocuStat's Building Bridges at Bislett workshop, Mon-Tue-Wed May 22-23-24:

http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/news-and-events/workshop_program17_web.pdf

But on *Fri May 26 from 14:00* I will teach for about an hour, in B81, and we go through the four-hour exam of stk 4160/9160 from 2015, now placed at the present course website. Note, incidentally, that you're allowed to bring along *one page of hand-written notes* for the four-hour exam June 2.

May 17, 2017 11:09 AM

exercises for Tue May 16

On Tue May 9 I went through Exercises 13 and 14 in Nils collection, and roughly the first half of Chapter 7. Next week I will round off Chapter 7 (where the last two sections are not part of the curriculum).

Exercises: 15 and 19 from Nils collection.

Greetings from Bled, Slovenia, where Celine Cunen has reported to the Scientific Committe of the International Whaling Commission (and delegates from a great many countries) about FIC for Whales (and where model selection issues have been crucially important and widely debated):

http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/publications_2/cunen_walloe_hjort1.pdf

https://www.facebook.com/groups/1589206911336271/permalink/1891603601096599/

May 12, 2017 12:11 AM

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