This is the web page for AMS 7 section 1 (spring 2018). The following abbreviations will be used here:

DD = David Draper (Professor; email address draper@ucsc.edu), RB = Raquel Barata (Head TA, rbarata@ucsc.edu), BL = Bohan Liu (TA, bliu47@ucsc.edu), XY = Xingchen (Joe) Yu (TA, xyu26@ucsc.edu}, BE = Baskin Engineering and JL = Jack's Lounge (on the ground floor of BE: it's the big open area with whiteboards, on the opposite end of the building from the coffee place) .

The catalog description for AMS 7 is as follows:

Case-study-based introduction to statistical methods as practiced in the biological, environmental, and health sciences. Descriptive methods, experimental design, probability, interval estimation, hypothesis testing, one- and two-sample problems, power and sample size calculations, simple correlation and simple linear regression, one-way analysis of variance, categorical data analysis.

• (2 Apr 2018) Announcements will be posted in this section. The first Attachment section below will contain (scanned) PDF copies of the document camera notes; the second Attachment section will contain secure documents, available only by logging into the web page with your CruzID Blue password.
• (4 Apr 2018) The webcasts for the class are now up and running. To watch a video of one of the lectures, go to webcast.ucsc.edu ; in the second row down from the top in the Webcast Course List you'll find a row that begins AMS 7 David Draper; in the right-most column of that row under the heading Link, click on Video List; on the page you come to next, in the top yellow box type in the username for this course, which is ams-7-1 ; in the next yellow box type in the password for this course, which is uncertainty-quantification (two words linked by a dash, no spaces, all in lower case; this is a long password, but if you make sure that the Remember me box has a check mark in it, you won't have to type in the password from now on, as long as you're using the same computer each time); now click on the blue Login box and you're at the Course Webcasts page. To watch a video just click on it, and then click the right arrow on the left just below the video screen.
• (8 Apr 2018)  Office hours this quarter are as follows: Mon 9-10am in BE 312C/D (BL); Mon noon-1pm in BE 360 (XY); Tue 9-10am in BE 312C/D (RB); Tue 2-3pm in BE 358 or JL (see abbreviations above) (DD); Wed 1-2pm in BE 360 (XY); Thu 9-10am in BE 312C/D (RB); Thu 2-3pm in BE 358 or JL (DD); and Fri noon-1pm in BE 312C/D (BL).
• (12 Apr 2018) The Learning Support Services (LSS) people on campus will present a series of (free) workshops this quarter on mathematical topics; all workshops will be in the ARCenter, room 116. The workshops of particular interest in this class will all take place from 7.10pm to 8.40pm, and are as follows: 19 Apr (basic probability); 26 Apr (inferential statistics); and 3 May (statistical reasoning).
• (19 Apr 2018) The official note-takers for the class are Negina Navani  (NN) and Ashley Tai (AT); I'll be posting their notes, along with mine, after each lecture.
• (21 Apr 2018) Our MSI Learning Assistant for this class is Evan Hetland -- his email address is ehatland@ucsc.edu . He's attending all lectures, so he has a good grasp of what's going on in the class and how the material is taught. His MSI tutorial sessions are as follows: Mon 4-5pm (Oakes Learning Center); Tue 11.40am-12.40pm (Oakes Learning Center); Thu 1.30-2.30pm (Crown 201); and Fri 1.20-2.20pm (Oakes Learning Center). He can help you with the homework, but not the take-home midterm and final (these are to be your own work exclusively). These sessions are open to everybody in AMS 7, with no upper limit of students per session.
• (21 Apr 2018) Learning Support Services (LSS) also offers tutoring for our class; the sessions are on Wed 5.30-6.30pm and Fri 2.45-3.45pm. They're conducted in a small-group fashion (no more than 8 people); you need to sign up by following the instructions at https://lss.ucsc.edu/programs/modified-supplemental-instruction/smallgrouptutoring-for-msi.html .
• (3 May 2018) I'll be giving an extra office hour every day to help you with the take-home midterm, starting tomorrow, through Sun 13 May 2018, when the midterm is due. They will all take place in Jack's Lounge (the whiteboard area on the ground floor of Baskin Engineering, at the opposite end of the building from the coffee place). The first few extra office hours will be as follows: Fri 4 May noon:30-1.30pm; Sat 5 May 1-2pm; Sun 6 May 3-4pm; Mon 7 May 2.45-3.45pm (note: this time has been changed). The remaining office hours next Tue, Wed, Thu, Fri, Sat and Sun will be announced soon.
• (6 May 2018) The final batch of my office hours this week in Jack's Lounge will be as follows: Tue 8 May 2-3pm; Wed 4-5pm; Thu 2-3pm; Fri 3-4pm; Sat noon-1pm; and Sun noon-1pm. As usual, they will take place in Jack's Lounge.
• (15 May 2018) All of my office hours for the rest of the quarter (starting today, 15 May 2018) will be held in Jack's Lounge (see the 3 May announcement above for location details).