Monday Miscellaneous

Class,

1. Am hearing that esurveyspro is also not allowing SKIP logic programming in its free account. Found that hard to believe, so I signed up and built a dummy survey myself. Seems to work fine, actually. There are ads appearing on the header, which is the reason why the survey usage is free.

2. Got diverse vibes to the modeling primer bit today. Kindly know that the primer is there for a purpose and has a point to it. The plan is to get across an intuitive feel for model building using basic math tools and 'solving' the models using, again, basic tools. We were actually solving nonlinear models in class today, a big step up over the regular linear models that are mainstay in the field. I mean, if you can do nonlinear, you can always do linear, no?

Ran out of time in the morning section, as usual. Will send an excel sheet and instructions on the ppt to make up for it.

R-janta, let me know if you are able to execute the code sent.

3. I mean it when I say "If you didn't follow the technical aspects of the Modeling primer discussion, don't worry about it." Nothing grade related will be based on it. Period. You will however be expected to understand and assess analysis results yielded by the advanced Quant techniques.

4. Quiz went through smoothly. Was surprised at janta claiming it was hard. Didn't square with evidence wherein majority of both sections finished up before the allotted 15 minutes. So thats good, I guess.

5. Got an interesting suggestion today. Why not go over each quickfire without quick-firing at all? That is, instead of eliciting a timed response, just cover the answer choices 1 by 1 and invite discussion. Well, that's an interesting idea and certainly merits consideration. Shall try next time, perhaps.

Any more queries or comments, most welcome.