An investor is equipped with an endowment of 1000$ that he plans to invest in one...

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An investor is equipped with an endowment of 1000$ that he plans to invest in one of two investment opportunities. The first opportunity is a natural resource exploration project allowing him to fourfold his investment within two years or loosing everything. The second opportunity is a riskfree coupon bond that pays 3.5% interest (non-compounding) a year additional to getting the investment back after two years. A geologist guesses that the probability of finding valuable resources is 10%. Note that there is no sample information from an associated statistical experiment. 1. Formulate the elements O, D, L of the statistical decision problem for the above situation. 2. Formulate the risk function for the above problem. 3. What do we know in advance about the elements of O? What prior distribution reflects our uncertainty of 0? 4. Determine the Bayes risk. An investor is equipped with an endowment of 1000$ that he plans to invest in one of two investment opportunities. The first opportunity is a natural resource exploration project allowing him to fourfold his investment within two years or loosing everything. The second opportunity is a riskfree coupon bond that pays 3.5% interest (non-compounding) a year additional to getting the investment back after two years. A geologist guesses that the probability of finding valuable resources is 10%. Note that there is no sample information from an associated statistical experiment. 1. Formulate the elements O, D, L of the statistical decision problem for the above situation. 2. Formulate the risk function for the above problem. 3. What do we know in advance about the elements of O? What prior distribution reflects our uncertainty of 0? 4. Determine the Bayes risk.

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