Spring 2013 - ISTA410/510 - Bayesian Modeling and Inferece

Assignment Five

Due: Sunday March 24, 2013, late (i.e., before Monday 9am)

Credit: Approximately 10 points (Relative, and very rough absolute weighting)

This assignment should be written up individually, but you can discuss the problems with others if you like. If you have substantive discussion on the approach to problems with pepole other than the instructor, please make a note of it where relevant.


You can do the programming parts of assignments in any language you like, with Matlab or C/C++ being recommened. There is no need to learn or use C/C++ in this course, but it is an option for the few that might be tempted.

Note that you need to hand in both a PDF and any code that you wrote.

Late policy: Once grading has begun, assignments will no longer be accepted. Note that the system for handing in assignments allows you to update your assignment. However, if you do this after the TA has graded yours, he will not notice.

A link to a pdf for the assignment.

Matlab code to render the model, given a set of parameters:
draw_beast.m




Important additional information

You must consult ISTA-410-510-assignment-instructions.pdf for detailed instructions for preparing assignments for this course.


To hand in your assignment, you need to use D2L