Midterm Round 1

Oh gawd... the week of hell has just ended. A whole week of almost non-stop ACMA studying. Even my body has been complaining; my tummy has been rejecting food lately :(.

I think I did well today; I feel that I broke 70 at least--hopefully I'm right. What totally surprised me though was the question involving the gamma distribution. WTF man... I just learned the properties of the gamma function the day before in Stat330. I've NEVER worked with it before, in any ACMA or Stat class. Even in his office hour he said we'd only need to be familiar with exponential, uniform, normal, etc. But gamma!?! Damn...

Economics. I know I got the last question wrong for sure. I don't think the class average will be too high so I should be ok. Hopefully I won't get screwed by this class. I was aiming for an A+ in this class to cushion my (probably) nasty ACMA grade :(.

Damn I'm such a dumbass: 1/9*y^(3/2) + 1/9*y^(3/2) = 2/9*y^(6/2). I had like 1hr to check it over too. The sneaky thing is that the mistake can't be caught by integrating the pdf.... well... I guess I should've tried to integrate some aribitary region to make sure the cdf agrees with the pdf.