April 2016 updates

I’ve updated the solutions to the D.3 practice problems that involve finding the MLE and MoM estimators with zero-modified distributions. The previous solutions used somewhat ugly algebraic approaches, while the new solutions use the methods presented in the lecture which are cleaner and I think substantially faster than the approach used in the text.

I’ve also updated the formula sheets to include confidence intervals for VaR-hat in section F (the formula sheets are in the Important Tables and FAQ/Key Course Handouts chapter in the start of the seminar)