Homework 0
Due Friday, 4 October 1996
All information, handouts, etc, used in this course will be made available
on the World Wide Web at the address
http://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~thisted/courses/227
In particular, all of the homework assignments, reading assignments, notes
on the homework, etc will be posted on the net. Homework will be due on
the schedule posted on the net; except for this assignment, weekly homework
assignments will not be distributed in class.
The first regular homework assignment (HW 1) is due on Wednesday, October
9. You must complete this homework assignment before you will be able to
get very far on HW 1.
The purpose of this assignment is to make certain that you can access the
web and use the information contained there.
- What is your e-mail address?
- On what date is homework 7 due?
- Is the final an in-class or a take-home final?
- If the final is in-class, when and where will it be held?
If it is a take-home exercise, when must it be turned in?
- How many numbered parts are there to HW 1?
- Print out the file hw0.dat.
How many observations does it contain?
Extra credit: what shape results when the data in hw0.dat are graphed using
the Stata command
graph x y, c(l) s(i)
Last updated 28-Sep-96 by RT
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