Lecture 03

• We discussed Poisson distributions and solved exercise 1.6.9, one of your homework problems.

• We then started Chapter 2 continuous random variables, covering 2.1 cumulative distribution functions. Particularly, we investigated the first example of nonparametric density estimation method, empirical cdfs.

• As an open problem, think about how to estimate density/distribution functions from given data other than the empirical cdfs.