Quiz on Binomial Probabilities

The bad news is that for some reason, my lecture on monday was not taped. So you will only have access to my slides and lecture notes, which are being put up on website in the usual place.

On Wednesday Waqar conducted practice session on solving Binomial problems. Perhaps worse news is that On Friday a quiz will be put up on QUIZSTAR regarding binomial probabilities. This will follow the pattern of questions drilled by myself as well as Waqar. I will post a note on this blog when the quiz becomes available for taking.  

Exercises on Lecture 12

Wednesday Class will be on exercises on computing the Binomial and Poisson probabilities. Several problems are given in the lecture notes, which are available from LINK. Also, the videotaped recording of the lecture is available from this same link.

Lecture 12: Probabilities & Discrete Random Variables

I am back from Umrah -- I prayed that all of my students may become assets for the Ummah, and the key to the creation of the changes needed for creating new directions.

Unfortunately, I did not have time to finish recording the 12th Lecture. I have just finished writing it up, and have posted it on the website: See Lecture 12. I will prepare the slides, but will not have time to record the lecture and so I will deliver it live tomorrow (Monday) morning at 9:00 am, insha Allah. 

Lec 10: Quiz

Quiz on lecture 10 has been available at Quizstar, and will remain open till Monday midnight.

Midterm + Schedule for Next Week

My goal in giving tests is NOT to judge students or compare or evaluate. The test is a LEARNING tool -- students are motivated to work hard to solve it, and thereby to understand the material covered. During grading, we have discovered several areas of weakness, which vary among students. Accordingly, by Friday, my TA's UZMA, IRFAN & WAQAR will mail INDIVIDUALIZED MAKEUP QUIZZES to each student. Each student will be asked to REDO calculations and computations that he/she did wrong, and will be given a little additional work that needs to be done to ensure that he/she has the background necessary to solve the problem.

UZMA: Please coordinate this work, assigning each of the three roughly equal share of quizzes to handle, and providing email addresses of the students to send them these individualized assignments.

ASSIGNMENT/QUIZ due SUNDAY midnite April 27th. This is in replacement for this weeks (two) quizzes which are not being given. The assignment is to pick a pair of variable from the WDI data set such that one is related to the other, and DRAW a graph of Y versus X in the manner shown in the Lecture 9 on BIVARIATE relationships. Comment on the nature of this relationship -- what does it tell you about the real world? Please learn how to download and handle the WDI data set in order to get variables for your study. Make sure that every student chooses different variables.  TA's please help students to get data they want.


NEXT: I am going to Jeddah for one week, leaving this Sunday 27th Apr and arriving back on 4th May. In my absence, WAQAR & IRFAN will be taking the lecture 11 and conducting lab on monday and wednesday as usual.
WAQAR & IRFAN: Please design quiz on Lecture 11, on the pattern of the previous quizzes. UZMA will LOAD the quiz onto QUIZSTAR. The pattern is as follows -- Look at the Lecture Slides, and ASSUME that students have these slides in front of them. MAKE questions to test comprehension of the material being presented on the slides.
UZMA: Please provide them with previous quizzes, and tell them how to get access to quizstar so that they have a better idea about the type of quiz they are supposed to design. You will make the final edits and fix and finalize the questions before loading onto quizstar -- this quiz should be available to students on 2,3,4 MAY.

Technical Issues

Some students said that sound was bad on Lecture 10. I just listened to it, but did not find any problems.  You do have to TURN ON the sound from within powerpoint. Go to the SLIDE SHOW tab, and click on Set Up Slide Show. In this menu, there is a check box marked: Show Without Narration. If this is checked then there will be no sound. If you UNCHECK it, then the slide show will play with the narrations. 

Unit 2: Prob & Stat

Congratulations to the class for finishing the first unit on DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS. This is a unique course, based on concepts and techniques not currently available anywhere in the world. I know that the class has worked hard, and learned a lot of valuable skills.

The second unit starts on Monday. The first lecture provide an entirely new approach to probability theory, currently not available anywhere else. I have just revised and put up the new lecture (anyone who downloaded or viewed/listened to the old version should get the new one. It has a few additional slides with additional material. Similarly the files for the lecture and the lab have been updated and put up recently. This can be downloaded from:  LECTURE 10: RANDOM DRAW 

The lecture will be on the usual time 9 to 10:30 on Monday morning. One of my students will be available to explain. Students can also put up questions on the blog about things they do not understand.

The lab will be done on Wednesday, and probably there will be a combined quiz on lab & lecture on Friday.