AMS 131 (Summer Session 2, 2017) | AMS131, Summer 17, Section 01

This is the web page for AMS 131 (second summer session, 2017). In what follows DD = David Draper (lecturer; email address draper@ucsc.edu); RG = Rene Gutierrez (TA; email address rgutie17@ucsc.edu) and SS = Sisi Song (TA; email address ssong13@soe.ucsc.edu); and BE = Baskin Engineering building.

(31 Jul 2017) Announcements will be posted in this section. The first Attachment section below will contain scanned PDF copies of the document camera lecture notes and extra lecture notes, as well as case studies and R and Maple code; the second Attachment section will contain secure documents, available only by logging into the web page.
(4 Aug 2017) Take-Home Test 1 is now available in the Attachments section below, in .pdf and .tex formats; the target due date for uploading your solutions to canvas.ucsc.edu is Mon 14 Aug 2017.
(7 Aug 2017) Office hours for the rest of the term, starting today (all office hours will be in Baskin (BE) 358 unless otherwise notified): Mon 11.30am-12.30pm (DD); Tue 3.30-4.30pm (RG); Wed 12.30-1.30pm (RG); Thu 10-11am (SS); Fri 11.30am-12.30pm (DD) and 1.30-2.30pm (SS).
(14 Aug 2017) Take-Home Test 2 is now available in the Attachments section below, in .pdf and .tex formats; the target due date for uploading your solutions to canvas.ucsc.edu is Wed 23 Aug 2017.
(19 Aug 2017) For the rest of the term, starting on Mon 21 Aug 2017, DD's office hours will be at the same time (MF 11.30am-12.30pm), but they will now take place in the Baskin Auditorium, right after class.
(21 Aug 2017) I've decided to add an extra office hour this week on Wed 23 Aug 2017, from 11.30am to 12.30pm, also in Baskin Auditorium.
(22 Aug 2017) Some people have emailed our TA Rene Gutierrez to say that they work all day and can't make daytime office hours. In response to this, Rene has kindly volunteered to give two new office hours this week and next week, in addition to his regular hours. The new office hours will all be in Baskin Engineering 358, and will take place as follows: Wed 23 Aug 2017 6-7pm, Thu 24 Aug 6-7pm, Wed 30 Aug 6-7pm, and Thu 31 Aug 6-7pm.
(22 Aug 2017) Take-Home Test 3 is now available in the Attachments section below, in .pdf and .tex formats; the target due date for uploading your solutions to canvas.ucsc.edu is Fri 1 Sep 2017.
(23 Aug 2017) For the reasons given in my email (sent to you today), I've changed the deadline at canvas.ucsc.edu for uploading Take-Home Test 1: the new deadline is 1 minute before midnight on Sun 27 Aug 2017. Please ensure that you've uploaded your solutions by then.
(23 Aug 2017) Our TA Sisi Song has kindly volunteered to give extra office hours this weekend: these will occur from 11am to 1pm on Sat 26 Aug 2017 in Jack's Lounge (ground floor of Baskin, opposite end of the building from the coffee kiosk).
(28 Aug 2017) For the reasons given in my email of 23 Aug, I've changed the deadline at canvas.ucsc.edu for uploading Take-Home Test 2: the new deadline is 1 minute before midnight on Wed 30 Aug 2017. Please ensure that you've uploaded your solutions by then.
(29 Aug 2017) Here's a summary of all of the office hours for AMS 131 from today through Sun 3 Sep: Tue 29 Aug 3.30-4.30pm (RG; Baskin 358 or Jack's Lounge); Wed 30 aug 11.30am-12.30pm (DD; Baskin Auditorium); Wed 30 Aug 12.30-1.30pm (RG; Baskin 358 or Jack's Lounge); Wed 30 Aug 6-7pm (RG: Jack's Lounge); Thu 31 Aug 10-11am (SS; Baskin 358 or Jack's Lounge); Thu 31 Aug 11am-noon (DD; Baskin Auditorium); Thu 31 Aug 6-7pm (RG; Jack's Lounge); Fri 1 Sep 11.30am-12.30pm (DD; Baskin Auditorium); Fri 1 Sep 1.30-2.30pm (SS; Baskin 358 or Jack's Lounge). In addition, DD and SS will hold office hours on Sat 2 Sep and Sun 3 Sep (details to be announced later).

Attachment	Size
Document camera notes (lecture: 31 Jul 2017).	692.51 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 31 Jul 2017).	481.42 KB
Case study: Tay-Sachs disease.	699.51 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 1 Aug 2017).	416.06 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 2 Aug 2017).	395.3 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 2 Aug 2017).	2.29 MB
Case studies: (1) Dr. Schram and (2) Fisher's constitutional hypothesis.	126.93 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 3 Aug 2017).	22.95 KB
R code for the birthday problem.	7.14 KB
R code for the matching problem.	2.09 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 2 Aug 2017).	223.27 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 4 Aug 2017).	1.52 MB
Case study: ELISA and HIV.	108.64 KB
Case studies: (1) Monte Hall and (2) Cromwell's Rule.	178.12 KB
Take-Home Test 1 (in .pdf format); target due date Mon 14 Aug 2017.	165.26 KB
Take-Home Test 1 (in .tex format); target due date Mon 14 Aug 2017.	25.02 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 7 Aug 2017).	1.06 MB
Document camera (extra notes: 7 Aug 2017).	486.76 KB
Case study: death penalty.	54.99 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 8 Aug 2017).	549.35 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 9 Aug 2017).	971.93 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 9 Aug 2017).	1.5 MB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 10 Aug 2017).	152.07 KB
R code exploring the Binomial and Poisson distributions.	8.43 KB
R code for initial exploration of the Exponential distribution.	1.62 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 11 Aug 2017).	331.25 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 11 Aug 2017).	1.68 MB
Maple code for exploring the bivariate normal distribution.	2.86 KB
R code for exploring the bivariate normal distribution.	1.64 KB
Maple code for exploration of {Poisson, triangular, voltage example, exponential} distributions.	959 bytes
Maple code for exploration of joint, marginal and conditional distributions.	1.86 KB
Take-Home Test 2 (in .pdf format); target due date Wed 23 Aug 2017.	172.18 KB
Take-Home Test 2 (in .tex format); target due date Wed 23 Aug 2017.	17.4 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 14 Aug 2017).	492.03 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 14 Aug 2017).	2.2 MB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 15 Aug 2017).	241.8 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 16 Aug 2017).	71.51 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 16 Aug 2017).	2.6 MB
Quiz 5 (in .pdf format); target due date for upload to canvas Wed 16 Aug 2017.	78.98 KB
Quiz 6 (in .pdf format); target due date for upload to canvas Fri 18 Aug 2017.	85.2 KB
R code for Discussion Section 6.	10.39 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 17 Aug 2017).	298.02 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 18 Aug 2017).	909.78 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 18 Aug 2017).	1.96 MB
Document camera notes (lecture: 21 Aug 2017).	929.75 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 21 Aug 2017).	1.29 MB
R code for Discussion Section 7.	1.68 KB
Take-Home Test 3 (in .pdf format); target due date Fri 1 Sep 2017.	185.81 KB
Take-Home Test 3 (in .tex format); target due date Fri 1 Sep 2017.	21.65 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 22 Aug 2017).	320.34 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 23 Aug 2017).	241.97 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 23 Aug 2017).	3.03 MB
Quiz 7 (in .pdf format); target due date for upload to canvas Wed 23 Aug 2017.	63.47 KB
R code for the Castaneda versus Partida case study.	2.56 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 24 Aug 2017).	168.15 KB
Lecture notes for the Castaneda versus Partida case study.	933.26 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 25 Aug 2017).	308.36 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 25 Aug 2017).	2.93 MB
Case study: London underground.	148.79 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 28 Aug 2017).	320.01 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 28 Aug 2017).	1.36 MB
R code for the London underground case study.	4.28 KB
Examples of the Central Limit Theorem in action.	143.5 KB
Case study: Roulette.	64.25 KB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 29 Aug 2017).	127.22 KB
Document camera notes (lecture: 30 Aug 2017).	713.32 KB
Document camera (extra notes: 30 Aug 2017).	1.85 MB
Document camera notes (discussion section: 31 Aug 2017).	288.91 KB
R code for exploring Markov chains.	11.36 KB
R code for the roulette case study.	7.09 KB
Optional reading about Markov Chain Monte Carlo (MCMC).	9.27 MB
Document camera notes (lecture: 1 Sep 2017).	225.05 KB
De-identified grades for the course.	5.87 KB