Christopher BinghamTeaching Assistants
372 Ford Hall, 612-625-1024, email kb@umn.edu
Office hours: Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, 2:30 - 3:30 pm or by appointment
Shr-Wei Chen
swchen@stat.umn.edu
Office Hours: Tuesdays, 10:00 - 12:00 , 352 Ford Hall
If you email, please identify yourself as a 3022 student (if you are).
5/18/02 I have posted solutions to the Final Examination (corrected).
I have posted information about the Second Mid Term grade distribution and how the grades will be rescaled.
The location of the final exam at 1:30 - 3:30 pm on Tuesday May 14 will be in Physics 131 and not in our usual classroom.
The date of the second midterm examination has been changed to Wednesday April 3. It will cover all the material through Assignment 8.
The regular labs will meet next Tuesday, January 22. The lab will be spent on getting aquainted with MacAnova, the computer program you will be using this semester. If you have your own computer, you should download the latest version from http://www.stat.umn.edu/macanova/download.html.
Also download Introduction to MacAnova (it may be available as a course packet in Williamson).
You will need the freeware program Acrobat Reader (Acroread) to read this and other course documents. If you don't have it, you can download it from http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html.
Class notes and overheads
I will be posting on the web edited copies of the overheads used in
lectures. You can download them from
http://www.stat.umn.edu/~kb/classes/3022/classnotes.html.
You will need the special user name and password announced in class to
access them.
Please let me know if you have any problem reading them.
The lecture is MWF 1:25- 2:15 p.m., EE/CSci 3-111
LabsCourse Information Handout ( PDF FILE)
I will use overhead transparencies for most lectures. I will probably posting edited copies of the lecture overheads as Acrobat PDF files to be downloaded. You will need a code name and password to be announced in class to access them. They will not be available before the lecture.
The computer program we will be using is MacAnova, a freeware program available for Windows, Macintosh and Linux/Unix. If you have a computer, you are strongly urged to download your own copy. Even if you have an earlier version of MacAnova, you should obtain the latest release (Release 4 of MacAnova 4.12, January 2002).
From time to time I may post here files to be downloaded containing macros that are not part of the standard distribution of MacAnova. Any corrected versions of standard macros will be put here, too.
Here are a couple of tips that may help downloading macro files.
On a Windows computer, it may be helpful to hold down the right mouse button while you click on the link for a macro file. This will bring up a file navigation dialog box where you can locate the Folder where MacAnova is installed.
On a Macintosh, hold the mouse button down until you get a pop up menu. The entry you should select will depend on your browser. In Netscape 4.7 it is Download this link as; in Explorer 4.5 it is Download link to disk; in iCab it is simply Download
Some people have had problems downloading files with the extension .mac, especially when using Internet Explorer. If you have such problems, use the alternate links with file names ending .mac.txt.
Depending on your browser, .txt may be stripped off the name when downloading. Probably the safest way to use these files is to use the following command before trying to use a macro.
Cmd> addmacrofile(getfilename()) # attach a macro file
This will bring up a file navigation dialog box so that you can find the macro file you downloaded. After you have selected it, you can use the macros normally, without having to use macroread() or getmacros().
I have posted responses to email questions about the final exam. I will update this if other queries are received. So far it includes the following:
I have started a page of my responses to questions about the homework that I think will be of general interest.
From time to time I will add links to short notes on MacAnova use here.
I am compiling a web page containing questions about MacAnova with answers. Currently this addresses the following topics:
Copies of handouts and examples will be posted here
Downloading Ott and Longnecker Data Files
You can download files of data from
Ott and Longnecker which are usable by MacAnova. The files are
available both as archive files containing all the data or as individual
text files. The download page contains a short example of how data can be
retrieved from a file in MacAnova. There is an additional example in
the Example of MacAnova Use handout.
Links to any data sets used in examples which are not in Ott and Longnecker will be put here.
The computer program we will be emphasizing in this course, and which will be used in most examples, is MacAnova, a free interactive program running under Windows 95/98/NT, Windows 3.1 with Win32s, Macintosh and Unix.
The latest version is release 4 of MacAnova 4.12. Even if you have a previous version of MacAnova, you should download the latest version.
The best way to get started is to go through An Introduction to MacAnova with MacAnova running on your computer. Try to reproduce as many of the examples as possible. The handout Example of MacAnova Use may also be helpful.
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