2008Fall
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October 16, 2008
TBA
David Haussler
Engineering Department, UCSC
@soe.ucsc.edu e-mail: https://zimbra.soe.ucsc.edu Vant98--
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http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ams205a/Fall08/
https://webcast.ucsc.edu/courses.php?course=ams205a&year=2008&quarter=Fall
http://www.dartmouth.edu/~chance/teaching_aids/books_articles/probability_book/book.html
http://www.matburo.ru/st_subject.php?p=tv
Y1,..,Yn anr iid from N(m,s^2) -> Yavg ~ N(m,s^2/n) (Yavg-m)/(S*sqrt(n)) ~ t of n-1
(n-1)S^2/sigma2 ~ xi sqruare(n-1) here S^2 i= Sum(Yi-Yavg)^2
Ordered stat: f(Yn)=nF(y)^(n-1)*f(y) F(Yn)=F(Y)^n f(Y1)=n[1-F(y)]^(n-1)*f(y) F(Y1)=1-[1-F(y)]^n
f(Y1,Yn)=n(n-1)[F(Yn)-F(Y1)]^(n-2)f(Yn)f(Y1)
Likelehood ratio test: -2log(LRT)~xi sqruare(j-1) ; j=p-q for large n
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ams211/Fall08/
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Linear_Algebra Linear Algebra
http://www.puffinwarellc.com/p3a.htm SVD explained
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenvector
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/index.htm MIT classes
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Mathematics/18-06Spring-2005/CourseHome/
http://web.mit.edu/18.06/www/Video/video-fall-99.html Linear Algebra
http://archives.math.utk.edu/topics/linearAlgebra.html
http://joshua.smcvt.edu/linearalgebra/
Green Formula http://www.math.umn.edu/~nykamp/m2374/readings/greensidea/
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ams221/Fall08/
http://www.intuit.ru/department/algorithms/opres Russian
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/ams206/Winter08/
http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/classes/cmps200/Fall08
http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~sbrandt/200/
The first year qualifying exam (FYE) is taken at the end of the first year, at the end of the Spring quarter. If a re-take is required, it will be given in September before the Fall quarter starts.
This year's exam will be on the 16th June, 2008, from 9am-1pm, in room BE 165.
The take-home exam will be given out at the end of the in-class exam and will be due in at noon on the 18th June, 2008.
The exam covers the material in all the AMS first year core courses: AMS 205, 206, 207, 211, 212A, 212B, 213, 214, 256, and in this transitionary year (2008), optionally AMS 261 (see below for details)
Everyone will be required to answer the questions on AMS 205 and 211.
Students will then be allowed to choose to answer any FOUR OUT OF THE REMAINING EIGHT QUESTIONS
The remaining eight questions will be drawn from material representing the courses AMS 206, 207, 212A, 212B, 213, 214, 256, and 261.
There will be an option NOT to do the question on AMS 261 however, and to do a further question on material from AMS 206, 207, 256 instead.
Here are some example questions from previous exams. Note: there is no guarantee that the questions or style of the exam will be in the same format as previous years. Currently, it seems like the "one long exam" style (of June 2007) is preferred over the "two-part" exam (of Sept 2007). If this is not the case, please see Adrienne Traxler to voice your opinion.
Some solutions: