Tuesday, October 28, 2008
just a bit
Find a price from your parents and figure out the inflation rate
Finish #4: graph and algebra
On the ball lab: are the graphs continuous or discrete? what are the
y-intercepts?
Finish #4: graph and algebra
On the ball lab: are the graphs continuous or discrete? what are the
y-intercepts?
Monday, October 27, 2008
Monday, October 20, 2008
Thursday, October 16, 2008
Monday, October 13, 2008
Tuesday, October 07, 2008
end of chapter 8
HW: Ch. 8 #31, 32, 36
Notes from today in class:
Notes from today in class:
- What the heck is a "line of best fit"?
- Its real name is: Least Squares Regression Line!
- Or: LSRL
- Least squares? least squares of what?
- The sum of all the residuals squared is as small as possible!
- Regression? What does that word mean?
- r tells us how much to regress to the mean (example…)
- And speaking of mean:
- (x-bar, y-bar) is on the line (duh!).
- And btw: the residuals always add up to zero.
- You should also note that if you switch x and y, the correlation does not change, but the LSRL does.
- You should never use a LSRL to predict x using y. It is not created to minimize the predictions for x, only for y.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
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