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The exam will be mainly terminological.

How about a party on Friday? Everyone brings something?

 

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OK, read Chapter 16 for Monday; on Wednesday we will have an exam on recent material.

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There will be a quiz on the Central Limit Theorem on Quiz on Wednesday, 5/16. It will be open notes, closed book.

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For Friday, 5/11/18, memorize the statement of the Central Limit Theorem, as it appears in the shaded area of page 197 in the text.

 

(Does not apply to Free Range Students)

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On 4/18 we will continue looking at exercises, starting with 13.8 on p. 193.

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Happy Spring break! There is no assignment!
We will start on the next chapter when we return.

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There will be an exam tomorrow, 3/16.
On Monday, we will continue with the last part of chapter 12 and the exercises.

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We got up to p.170 today. For next time, be prepared to do quick exercise  12.1 and read the next few pages.

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For those who missed a quiz of 2/23, you may make it up by handing in EITHER exercise 11.1 (p.163) OR part a. of exercise 11.2 (p. 163-4).

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The main part of the class will continue reviewing on 1/21.

The others should continue at their own speed.

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For Monday, 2/12, read the chapter about the Poisson distribution!

 

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OK, Due to the AMC exam, the assignment us extended until 2/9.

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School is cancelled today, so the assignment originally for today is not due until Wednesday.

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Aaaaaaaargh! There's an error in the first replacement exercise!

It shows the joint distribution of X and Y as

1/6  1/6

2/3   2/3

. This is of course impossible. Please change it to

1/6  1/6

2/6   2/6

. Thanks!

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When you arrive at something by arithmetic, algebra, trigonometry, or calculus, you don't have to specify the reasons. But when you arrive at something on the basis of some Statistical principle, you should name that principle; or, on homework, you may say, "By the equation on page xxx".

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In Math we don't just say things dogmatically, we give reasons. I'm going to say this again: if you give the right answer, without explaining *why* it is the right answer, you will receive NO CREDIT!

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Oops! I forgot that Wednesday 1/31 is AMC conference day! Also, I think that exercises 11.1 -- 5 (due that day) are too difficult. I am therefore cancelling that assignment. If you have done some of it, give what you have to me (or put it in my box, or send it to physis_asparagus@yahoo.com), and I will count it toward extra credit. I will create and distribute a substitute set of exercises.

We may be working on prep for AMC for awhile, so the substitute exercises will probably be due the first class after the AMC.

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Also: I didn't have time, on Monday, to finish my lecture on Chapter 11. In my haste to get on with Chapter 11, I left it to you to read the rest. It occurs to me that this may have been unwise, and that after the AMC, I should continue my lectures on Chapter 11. What do you think?

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For wednesday, 1/31, hand in exercises 11.1 - 11.5.

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The Schilling School has scheduled vacations. If a student's family wants to declare a vacation of their own, that is their privilege, but it does not absolve the student of homework or other responsibilities. Work should be sent to me at

physis_asparagus@yahoo.com

at or before the time due (class time on a date announced here). Note that it is is "physis", not "physics".

I don't penalize for absence, but I will penalize for failure to turn in work.

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On tests, assignments, and the like, always give reasons for your answers!

Even if it is a yes-or-no question, don't just write one word. Show me that you know *why* the anwer is what it is!

In the future I will take off a point for answers without justifications.

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I have decided to give an extension on the assignment due Monday, 1/22. You now have until Wednesday, 1/24.

If you wish to hand anything in on 1/22, you may.

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For Monday, 1/22, hand in the first five exercises to Chapter 10 at the beginning of class. Due to my new policy, late papers will receive a 0 and cannot be made up with extra credit, and no curving will be done this quarter.

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For 1/19, read Chapter 10 and be prepared to discuss it.

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On Wednesday, 1/17/18, we will discuss the exam.

No need to have read Chapter 10 until Friday, 1/19/18.

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For Friday, 1/12, read Chapter 10!

(Added later: no need to have read chapter 10 until Friday, 1/19.) 

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On Wednesday, 1/10/18, we will have a delicious exam, covering chapters 5-9! 

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For Wednesday, 12/13, read chapter 9!

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Because of the play, and because I didn't finish lecturing on Chapter 8, we will proceed as follows:

On Wednesday, 12/5, I will continue lecturing on Chapter 8.
On Friday, 12/7, exercises 8.1-8.5 will be due at the beginning of class, and I will discuss them.
On Monday, 12/10, exercises 8.6-8.10 will be due at the beginning of class, and I will discuss them.

To those in the play, break a leg!

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If you do extra credit to make up for a bad grade, your resulting grade is determined as follows: Your grade on the make-up, expressed as a percentage, adds that percentage of the difference of your original grade and one hundred to your original grade. In other words, if your original grade is O, your grade on the extra credit is E, and your resulting grade is R, then R = O + (E/100)(100-O). For example, if you got a 40 on your first try, and then got a 50 on the extra credit, your resulting grade would be 40 +(50/100)(100-40) = 40 + 30 = 70.

This means that you have nothing to lose by doing the extra credit.