Computational Modeling
Fall 2008

For today, you should:

1) read Chapter 9 (my suggestions next time)

2) prepare for a quiz on Chapter 8 (changed my mind)


Today:

1) work on Chapters 8/9

2) course evaluations.  For your consideration:

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principal, sans pareil, second to none, super, superlative, supreme,
terrific, tops, tough, transcendent, unequaled, unparalleled,
unrivaled, unsurpassed

(from http://thesaurus.reference.com/browse/best)


For next time you should:

1) work on Chapter 9

2) prepare for a quiz on Chapter 9


End of semester wrap up:

1) final evaluation packet, chapter 7, 8 or 9, with self-eval:
   soft deadline Tuesday 9 December,
   hard deadline Friday 12 December, 4pm (beginning of the
   non-existent final assessment).

2) check everything, including a clean and easy-to-find PDF,
   into your repository
   hard deadline Friday 12 December, 4pm
   (I will do an update at that time, and that is what I will
    evaluate)

   file name = yourlastname08compmod.pdf   (all lower case)
   

Chapter 9
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9.1 Monty Hall (do this only if you are not sick of the MH problem)

9.2 Monty Hall variation

9.3 Girl named Florida

9.4 Poincare story

9.5 Quick probability estimate (lunch with Debbie Chachra)

9.6 streak testing

9.7 Texas sharpshooter

9.8 DiMaggio streak

9.9 simple Bayes Theorem (programming exercise)

9.10 simple Bayes Theorem (paper and pencil?)