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This professor took micro and macro at the same time (and then dropped the econ major).
Who is Professor Contreras?
This test fulfills the capstone experience for the mathematics major.
What is the Comprehensive Examination ("comps")?
The definition of this mathematical property is: if a|b and b|c, then a|c.
What is transitivity?
This measure of centrality is the most affected by outliers in the data.
What is the mean/average?
This MS-DEI fellow wants to talk to you about fruit.
Who is Hannah?
This professor minored in German as an undergrad.
Who is Professor Matheson?
Statistics majors must take at least one course in this department as an elective.
What is Computer Science?
This transformation swaps the rows and columns of a matrix.
What is a transposition?
A college professor collects data by dividing the population into first-years, sophomores, juniors, and seniors, then randomly selects 50 students from each group; this is an example of this sampling method. (Assume there are an equal number of students in each class.)
What is stratified random sampling?
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What is @msdei_amherst on Instagram?
This professor was in a touring punk band for three years.
Who is Professor Kuzbary?
This 300-level course is the only course other than Probability to be cross-listed in both the Mathematics and Statistics departments
What is Theoretical Statistics (MATH/STAT370)?
The elements of this sequence become arbitrarily close to each other as the sequence progresses.
What is a Cauchy sequence?
This resampling technique treats a single sample as the entire population, drawing repeated random samples with replacement to estimate an unknown statistic.
What is bootstrapping?
The MS-DEI fellows want to make this space more welcoming to students.
What is the Williams Lounge?
This professor was the acting president of Amherst College from July 1, 2011, to July 31, 2011.
Who is Professor Call?
This is a main requirement for writing a thesis in mathematics.
What is the Honors Qualifying Exam ("quals")?
The axiom ensuring the real number line has no "gaps" (unlike rational numbers).
What is Completeness?
A candy dish contains 100 candy corns and 80 Hershey Kisses. Fifty candies are picked at random. This distribution can be used to calculate the probability that 30 out of 50 of the candies are candycorns.
What is the hypergeometric distribution?
The MS-DEI fellows successfully established a branch of this organization as an RSO on campus.
What is the Association for Women in Mathematics?
This professor skipped eighth grade.
Who is Professor Wagaman?
These two courses are required for both the mathematics and statistics courses.
What are Introduction to the Calculus (MATH 111) and Intermediate Calculus (MATH 121)?
While any mathematical structure of this type satisfies associativity, identity, and inverses, this specific class adds the axiom that a * b = b * a for all elements.
What is an Abelian group?
Named for a 20th-century statistician, this bound states that the variance of any unbiased estimator is bounded below by the reciprocal of the Fisher information.
What is the Cramér-Rao bound?
The MS-DEI fellows are hosting this event on November 17th in E208 in the Science Center.
What is Pie and Puzzles?