Session 8 HW & End-term Sample Paper

Hi all,

The session 8 HW, which doubles up as the end-term sample paper has been putup on LMS. It has two sets of Qs:

• One Q set is based on regression results from the beer dataset. Incidentally, this is the same Q that showed up in last year's end-tem (which is why the tables in it are from SPSS and not R).
• Pls note the Q types - fill-in-the-blanks, true/false, MCQs, perhaps a brief one line text input (e.g., 'write the conceptual model for...' or 'write the econometric model expression for ...').
• Expect end-term Qs to be along similar lines. We're planning 40 such small Qs over about 8-10 Q-sets covering most of the modules done in class.
• Exam is designed for max 2 hours though you will have have 2.5 hours officially. Its open-book, open-notes, so don't sweat about memorizing random stuff.
• The second Q set is based on a logit model results set from the Nike example we covered in class in session 8.
• Write or type only in the space provided, both for this HW and for the end-term later on.
• The HW is due as a hardcopy submission in the break during session 10. No scope for late submissions here.

More Miscell and General announcements

• The meetings with groups over their project status have been instructive and informative. I'll put up a separate blog post on this soon. Update: That blogpost is now up and is here
• The R portion is now more or less done. No further HWs after session 8's. The coming week will be more consolidation & integration of what we did in the past 4 weeks and about looking ahead to the future.
• I have had some informative discussions with a few students who have volunteered feedback on what can be done to improve the course, better differentiate it from similar offerings and so on. I would appreciate further pointers from folks who feel strongly about any aspect of the course.

That's it for now. Ciao.

Sudhir