Wed Nov 15

  1. For Wednesday November 15, as you study for the exam, write responses to the following questions. There is a study guide available here.
    • Which topics and ideas do you think are the most important out of those we have studied?
As always, the theorems and definitions, most especially those associated with each distribution that we need to know.
    • What kinds of questions do you expect to see on the exam?
I exist to see at least one in Bayesian stats, several on calculating the pdf, cdf, and pmf, wine excited value and variance, and I hope not too many on bias or estimates.
    • What do you need to work on understanding better before the exam?
The are a few things/defs that I don't know yet, and I need to work through the practice problems.

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