News

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Last updated: Mon Jun 22 17:51:54 2009

• By request of several students there will be a review session at 3E209 (map, page 2) Tuesday, June 23, 2009 10:00--12:00. You may still make a separate appointment if you wish by email or phone.

Sun Jun 21 03:58:20 2009

• Solutions to midterm have been posted. There is a separate page for each data set, so have your data set ID ready.

Thu Jun 18 23:43:49 2009

• Errors in Lecture 10 notes have been corrected. Please check for additional study resources to be added before the exam.

Thu Jun 18 11:45:39 2009

• Lecture 10 notes have been updated.

Thu Jun 18 04:08:03 2009

• Lecture 10 notes have been updated. Check for updates before class.

Wed Jun 17 19:19:18 2009

• Draft of Lecture 10 notes have been posted. Check for updates before class.

Mon Jun 15 21:40:52 2009

• Sketch of answers to Homework 3 has been posted.
• Sketch of answers to Homework 2 has been posted. Note: if you got skewness to 5 or greater, and kurtosis to 20 or greater, you're doing fine. It should be obvious from the suggested answers that you can drive those numbers as high as you like.

Older news has been moved to Previous updates.

Contents

1. News ... announcements. Read this often!
2. Contents ... this section.
3. Course Outline and Goals ... general description of this course.
4. About Me ... professor contacts.
5. About This Course ... administrative information.
6. Links to Lecture Notes ... materials presented in lecture.
7. Links to Homework Assignments ... past and future assignments.
8. Previous Updates ... previously posted news.

Course Outline and Goals

Nothing here yet.

About Me

Stephen Turnbull, Associate Professor
Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering
	Room	Phone
Office	3F1234	853-5091
Lab	3C306	853-5027
Email	turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Home Page	http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/

About This Course

経営政策プログラム ／ Business Administration and Public Policy
データ解析基礎 ／ Basic Data Analysis
Catalog No.	01CD103
Day/Time	Thursday, 3rd & 4th (12:15--15:00)
Room	8A108
Home Page	http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/Teach/DataAnalysis/
Email	mailto:turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Textbook	Freedman, Pisani & Purves, Statistics (4th ed.) Hardback, special order, at Maruzen, near University Hall. Hardback, new, at Amazon Japan. Paperback, new, at Amazon Japan. Hardback, new, at Amazon (US) (about shipping). Paperback, new, at Amazon (US) (about shipping). Used copies also available from Amazon. 4th edition is preferred because exercises change a lot, but 3rd edition probably is similar.

Links to Lecture Notes

No	Date	Link
1	April 9	Introductory remarks; histograms.
_	April 16	There is no lecture (medical exams).
2	April 23	Experiments and observational studies.
3	April 30	Observational studies and distributions.
4	May 7	Distributions and histograms.
5	May 14	Descriptive statistics.
6	May 21	Measures of dispersion; Probability.
7	May 28	Midterm examination. More probability.
8	June 4	Probability distributions; the normal distribution.
9	June 11	Statistical inference.
10	June 18	Regression analysis. Data mining *vs.* statistics.
_	June 25	Final examination.

Links to Homework Assignments

Homework	Link
#1	Homework 1 (answers as HTML)
#2	Homework 2 (answers as Excel)
#3	Homework 3 (answers as PDF)

Previous Updates

Thu Jun 11 11:16:31 2009

• Lecture 9 notes have been updated. Figures have been improved.

Thu Jun 11 05:03:58 2009

• Lecture 9 notes have been posted. Check for updates before class.

Thu Jun 4 02:19:29 2009

• Lecture 8 notes have been posted. Check for updates before class.
• Lecture 7 notes were posted a few days ago.

Tue Jun 2 13:22:35 2009

• Homework 3 has been posted. (There is no worksheet for this homework.)
• Homework 2 and Homework 1 have been reformatted in the more convenient format used for Homework 3. (There is no content change, however.)

Wed May 27 13:49:30 2009

• Answers to Homework 1 have been posted.

Tue May 26 12:17:41 2009

• Thanks to several students for reporting that the homework was not visible. (It was uploaded but this home page did not get properly updated with links.)

Thu May 21 18:46:25 2009

• The mean-variance worksheet and Lecture 6 notes have been modified slightly.

  Homework 2 and the worksheet for Homework 2 have been posted.

Thu May 21 11:25:46 2009

• The mean-variance worksheet is available as .xls.

Thu May 21 01:00:32 2009

• The midterm examination is scheduled for Thursday, May 28, 3rd period (12:15--13:30). There will be a lecture in 4th period (13:45--15:00).
• Lecture 6 notes have been posted. (This is the portion that will be relevant to the exam next week.) These notes will be updated before class, and a spreadsheet and homework will be added.

Fri May 15 00:18:29 2009

• Lecture 5 notes have been updated (two slides on the "AM/PM" example that were missing in class have been restored).

Thu May 14 16:32:12 2009

• The grade distribution worksheet has been updated.
• Homework 1 and the worksheet have been posted.
• Lecture 5 notes have been updated to include the homework assignment as presented in class. This is the same as the homework above.

Thu May 14 15:47:44 2009

• The grade distribution worksheet has some mistakes in the version posted this morning, and will be updated. (Check today at 4:30pm, 6:30pm or tomorrow morning for an announcement and links.)
• The homework assignment and worksheet will be posted at the same time.

Thu May 14 11:27:15 2009

• The grade distribution worksheet is available as .xls.

Thu May 14 03:18:02 2009

Oops. Sorry about not posting placement test and Lecture 4 notes.

• Lecture 5 notes posted.
• Lecture 4 notes posted.
• Placement test questions posted. (Answers will be posted shortly.)

Thu Apr 30 08:22:50 2009

• Lecture 3 notes posted.

Mon Apr 27 14:50:40 2009

• Thursday, April 30 is not a holiday, class will meet at the usual time on that day, and the placement test will be conducted.
• Description of the placement test is available.

Thu Apr 23 10:30:10 2009

• Lecture 2 notes posted.

Wed Apr 15 12:09:26 2009

• About textbooks: Maruzen is insisting on special orders. Amazon is surely cheaper and probably faster. See About This Course for links to Amazon pages.

Sun Apr 12 23:46:19 2009

• Lecture 1 notes posted. These notes will be updated with content regarding histograms.
• Minor update to lecture schedule.

Fri Apr 10 11:11:49 2009

• As you can see, we have a home page! Lecture notes coming soon....
• Fixed mojibake.