This first HW has complicated multiple due dates for different parts, see details below. In general HW are due after each class, where I usually give you night-owls the option of working until 8am the next morning.
Each student should submit a separate assignment, even if it is an identical computer file to the rest of your study group. When submitting assignments, please include your name and the assignment number as part of the filename. Please write the names of your study group members at the beginning of your homework.
During class on Monday Sept 15, we’ll do experiments on sequences of random numbers. Typically I give out dice in class but obviously not this year. If you have any old dice, then you might enjoy playing with sanding, heating, drilling, gluing, squeezing or whatever to see if you can adjust which numbers come up. If you haven’t got dice handy, don’t worry! You can also download an app or find a website that gives random numbers (usually integers in an interval). I know, there are ones in R too.
Before class, you should have done about 20 experiments where you roll the dice (or use the app) and record whether the result was a 6 or not. If you’ve got an app, then drawing integers from interval [1,6] is like fair dice; integers from [1,5] will be rather boring and never produce a 6; but integers from [1,8] or [1,10] will produce 6 but at a lower rate than fair dice.
The dice example is from Andrew Gelman’s book on Teaching Stats.