September 8, 2011

This page will give you links to materials for this course.

Here is our (tentative) schedule for the semester. I observe the Jewish holidays and as result we will miss some days of scheduled class but will make up the time by meeting with you individually or in groups concerning your projects.  It will be useful for me to know the days and times when you are free for these make-ups so please bring a sheet showing these times with you to class. (I don't need to know your complete schedule -- just the times when it would be convenient to get together.)

The rules for projects, presentation, and for exams will be discussed in class.  The projects would best be done in groups of no more than two or, in some special cases, three, so I would like to pair you up in the first week according to interests: roughly law, economics, or medicine. (If you have other ideas for grouping, tell me.) 

Please read the introduction to the course before coming to class. 

September 9, 2011

A section on `odds' has been added to the introduction. It contains a Restatement of Bayes' Theorem in terms of odd which sometimes makes calculation easier. You should read it for the the first homework, which is due on Thursday, September 15, in class.


Here are links to homeworks already assigned:
Homework#1 (originally due 9/15; revisions accepted 9/20) Selected solutions
Homework#2 (due 9/22) Selected solutions
Homework#3 (due 10/4)  This is in two parts:
  homework#3 (required)
     and a second opetional part
  Braess' paradox (a Nash equilibrium problem)
     This one really surprised me when I first saw it!
Homework#4 (due 11/4)
Homework#5 (due 11/11)

Here are some web sites which may be helpful.
StatTrek is designed to help you teach yourself statistics.  The link here opens to the section on the normal distribution, which contains a calculator for that distribution. (You can do by hand everything that the calculator does by using a table of the normal distribtution. Itis worthwhile to do it both ways a few times to see whether you really understand it.)  Once you get to this link you can also get to the other lessons by clicking on appropriate lines.