Final Exam Solutions
Regarding the final exam: the test is open book, but not open-notes. This means you may not put post-its, tabs, etc on your book, to "remind you of the location of important formulas". The book has a table of contents, and post-its cross the line between "book" and "notes". To be completely clear, the post-its are prohibited even if there is nothing written on them. You are allowed to use calculators, and the line here is again fuzzy. So here are some guidelines: if you can use it for the FM exam, it's a calculator. If it can connect to the internet, it is not a calculator.
Test 2 Results: Average 109, Standard Deviation 19. The test was out of 153 points. Problem 25c contained a mistake and was not counted. Solutions to Test 2 are available here.
Solutions to the last homework are now available.
Final Exam: Currently this is scheduled for Thursday May 17, 4:30-6:30 in LH009. However, the final word on this is the university web page, and not anything I may say in class. You can check it here. The exam will be open book, but not open notes. You may use calculators, within reason. (This means that the TI-BA II plus, or whatever is used for the FM exam, is allowed, but an iPad is not.)
Solutions for the first test are now available.
Test 2: May 1, covers through Section 11.9 (inclusive). That is, the test will include everything about simple linear regression, but nothing on multiple linear regression.
I have posted some remarks on internship opportunities.
Solutions to the quiz of 3/1 are now available here.
The first real test will be Thursday 3/8, take the full 2 hours, and cover chapters 8 and 9. For this test calculators will be allowed. Note that this means there will be a change in the style of problems you are asked to solve. For example, calculations involving a confidence interval for a difference in means, which might have been too time-consuming before, are now quite likely to appear. Note that this means you must also know how to read the tables for the normal, chi-square, and t distributions. Generally this increases the level of difficulty, and so you will have more preparation to do.
My office hours: Wednesday 3-5pm.
TA (Zecong Ma) office hours: Friday 3-5pm in the Calculus Help Room.
Contacting me: the best way is by email: dikran@math.binghamton.edu. I do not read my @binghamton.edu email very frequently.
Information about the course, including text, meeting times and places, grading, and homework policies is in the syllabus.
Applet Exercises: It's not immediately obvious how to find the relevant web pages. If you're having trouble, you can try this link.
The homework assignments will be listed here.
I will not be posting solutions to problems from the book. There is a student solutions manual available for the textbook. If you don't want to pay for it, you could share one with a friend, or drop by my office to consult my copy.