AMS 007 - Fall 2008
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Announcements:
- (18 Sep 2008) Instructor: David Draper (office BE 135); telephone 459--1295; email draper@ams.ucsc.edu (I'll do my best, but due to the volume of email I receive, I can't guarantee quick response to any message you send; please put AMS 7 student in the subject line of any email message to me).
- (18 Sep) Please see the Introduction to AMS 7 and 7L handout below for all other information about the course.
- (3 Oct) The second lecture section for the class has been set up: it will take place on M-W from 5-6.45pm in the Baskin Auditorium. If you've been kind enough to agree to swap into this lecture section to relieve the overcrowding, you won't be able to do anything about this until Tue 7 Oct, because you need a new permission code for AMS 7 section 2 and these will be given out in class on that date (along with an instruction sheet on how to make the change). Thanks again for your forbearance as we try to finally get through all the enrollment problems. As mentioned previously, the bottom line is that everybody who needs to take this class this quarter will get in.
- (26 Oct) If you've lost track of the office hours for this class, click here; this handout summarizes all the AMS 7 and 7L resources available to you and gives a timetable of all of the lectures, discussion sections, labs and office hours.
- (27 Oct) WebCT is now up and running for both lecture sections of AMS 7 -- you can get there through MyUCSC or by going directly to the WebCT portal (your login name and password are the same as the ones you use for UCSC email). You can use this site to check your grades in the class. Note: We're currently still behind in getting all of the grades posted here, so don't worry if not much (or nothing) shows up for you now; the hope is that by about a week from now we'll be caught up.
- (5 Dec) IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT ABOUT THE TAKE-HOME FINAL: There is an error in problem 1b -- you should omit the part about the Fisher z-transform and comparing the two intervals for the population correlation; we didn't cover that in class this quarter.
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Course handouts other than those in the reader (or handed out before
the reader was available):
- (25 Sep) DD, BG
- (30 Sep) DD, BG, BVO
- (2 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (7 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (9 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (14 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (15 Oct) DD
- (16 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (20 Oct) DD
- (21 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (22 Oct) DD
- (23 Oct) DD, BVO
- (27 Oct) DD
- (28 Oct) DD, BG, BVO
- (29 Oct) DD
- (30 Oct) DD, BVO
- (3 Nov) DD
- (4 Nov) DD, BG, BVO
- (5 Nov) DD
- (6 Nov) DD, BVO
- (12 Nov) DD
- (13 Nov) DD, BVO
- (17 Nov) DD
- (18 Nov) DD, BG, BVO
- (19 Nov) DD
- (20 Nov) DD, BG, BVO
- (24 Nov) DD
- (25 Nov) DD, BVO
- (1 Dec) DD
- (2 Dec) DD, BG, BVO
- (3 Dec) DD
- (4 Dec) DD, BG, BVO
- The butterfly wing length data from Zar (1999)
- The raw cortex data set from the psychobiology case study, and the corresponding (pooled) paired cortex data set
- The random sums and random means scripts for experimenting with the Central Limit Theorem, and datasets for that experimentation: roulette1 (single number), uniform, fake, sedge, roulette2 (split), and roulette3 (red and black)
- The script for simulating the creation of 95% confidence intervals for the mean, and two data sets for that simulation: crab-simulation (a population of N = 100,000 values based on the crab equilibrium temperatures data set from Zar), and strontium (a population of N = 100,000 values based on a data set from my consulting work on nuclear power waste disposal risk assessment)
- The intertidal crab body temperature sample data set (n = 25) from Zar (1999)
- The arthropod calcium data set (n = 13) from Zar (1999)
- The hemophilia clotting times data set (n = 13) from Zar (1999)
- The bird respiration data set (n = 8) from Zar (1999)
- Lead levels in soil samples (n = 313) from Moore and McCabe (1999), also examined in Discussion Section 10
(last modified: 4 Dec 2008)

