Chapter 4 Objectives After you have read and studied this chapter, you should be able to Define an instantiable class with multiple methods and a constructor. Differentiate the local and instance variables. Define and use value-returning methods. Distinguish private and public methods. Distinguish private and public data members. Describe how the arguments are passed to the parameters in method definitions

Chapter 1 Objectives After you have read and studied this chapter, you should be able to Name the basic components of object-oriented programming. Differentiate classes and objects. Differentiate class and instance methods. Differentiate class and instance data values

Estimation of the inputs A computer exercise using real data Implementation problem and some solutions Estimation results in uncertainty Shrinkage and Bayesian inference to deal with uncertainty Imposing restrictions