Congratulate me, everyone. I got a "B" in Statistics!

[TheDebbieDee]

This means I don't have to take it again! (This was my second time taking Statistics.)

Yay, me!

[noamnety]

1. congrats!

having survived a stats class recently with much assistance, I understand what that means.

[TheDebbieDee]

4. Thank you. I fried my brain passing this course!

I'm trying now to revive a few brain cells by imbibing a gin and juice!

[City of Mills]

2. Way to go!

I hated my Statistics class, just didn't interest me. I was also glad to have passed so I never have to deal with it again!

[TheDebbieDee]

6. I'm SO glad to have passed it, too..........

What a silly, useless science. But my Stats instructor was the best! He kept telling me and my classmates, "Don't let this stuff scare you!"

So, I hung in there and passed.

[rebel with a cause]

27. I had a panic attack when I took my open book stats final!!!

My professor had pity on me and let me redo it as a take home exam. The book we had used in my class was useless to me, I didn't understand anything it said. I borrowed my daughters statistics book and finally understood what the course was all about. Well, I understood it long enough to work all the problems in the take home test. It is amazing what a difference there was in the two books and they were both for Master level classes.

And yes, it is a silly useless science except to learn how you can do research and created biased/stacked results. I don't trust much of research statistics now. :shrug:

[Quantess]

3. Good job!

It's okay to take a class twice, if it means that you really know the material the 2nd time. I took statistics twice, too. It's not as easy as the name sounds.

[TheDebbieDee]

7. I'm so relieved I don't have to take it again.......

It's a great weight off my shoulders.

[Iggo]

5. Effing excellent!

Statistics blows!

[TheDebbieDee]

8. Stats blow but somebody's gotta do it.

Thank goodness, it ain't me!

I need more gin!

[AsahinaKimi]

9. Omedetou gozaimasu!

Congratulations! Good Job!!!

[TheDebbieDee]

12. Thanks!

What language is that? Swahili?

[AsahinaKimi]

22. Nihongo = Japanese

I plan on improving my Language skills in January by going back to school.

[TheDebbieDee]

23. Cool beans. Good luck!

[AsahinaKimi]

25. Thank you very much

Arigatou!

[LostInAnomie]

10. I got a "B" in Statistics my first time around.

That's because my Stats teacher fell off the wagon and started chasing her ex-husband around the country mid-semester though. The school raised everyone's grade by one letter, effectively passing everyone, to make it up to us.

[TheDebbieDee]

13. Hey, a passing grade is a passing grade, no matter how you got it!

[petronius]

11. In two sentences or less, explain the central limit theorem

Give an example of when a one-tailed hypothesis test would be appropriate.

What are the four main assumptions made in ordinary least squares regression?

How many degrees of freedom are there in a 4x5 cross tab, and what test statistic would - oh, wait! You don't need to think about any of that again! Congratulations! :)

[TheDebbieDee]

14. I did a memory dump of things Stats as soon as I learned that I got a "B"!

After another gin and juice there will be a 90% probability that I won't even remember my name!

[Boojatta]

15. You have internalized early 21st century statistics dogma, and you will be unprepared

for the conceptual revolution that will completely overthrow it.

You were supposed to fail and take it again so that you would be motivated to play a leading role in the revolution.

[TheDebbieDee]

19. I was supposed to fail? Again? NOW you tell me!

[Capn Sunshine]

16. Congrats!

I HATED STATISTICS

[TheDebbieDee]

20. Stats was definitely a challenge. I think physics would have been

easier......from what I recall it was easier to figure out what the formulas were computing. C is the speed of light, M is mass, E is energy, etc.

The percentage plus or minus the confidence index z-equivalent of 2.575 times the square root of P(1 - P)/N.......

OMG! I need more gin!

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

17. Statistically speaking, where does that put you on the curve?

You KNOW that's important... :headbang:

[qnr]

18. I will not say "What are the odds." .... I will not say "What are the odds." .... I will not...

Congratulations!

[TheDebbieDee]

34. I had to sleep off some of that gin and juice........

And odds are I will be having more gin and juice later this evening!

[XemaSab]

21. Congratulations!!!

I got an A, through some sort of divine intervention. :P

[TheDebbieDee]

35. Thanks!

[pokerfan]

24. I never cared for statistics

but I loved probability theory so go figure.

Congrats on the great grade.

[TheDebbieDee]

36. Thanks! I kinda understood the probability parts.....

But just about everything else in the class was a blur!

[pokerfan]

46. They were part of the same class for me as well

Like Calculus II, where the analytic geometry and infinite series stuff balanced out my ineptitude at solving (some) integrals, the probability stuff made up for my dislike of statistics. I hate busy work and cranking through an integral or solving an ODE is busy work, in my opinion. Let a computer do it. Understanding the concepts and setting up the equations should be 80% of the grade anyway.

But probability! That leads to understanding gambling and Bayesian analysis and Game Theory! Fun, fun stuff!

[redqueen]

26. Congrats!

So did I!

How good does that feel?

Fuckin A I'm so glad that shit's over! :woohoo:

[TheDebbieDee]

37. How good does that feel?

I feel so good I could just $hit!

[redqueen]

47. LOL!

I never want to think about that crazy crap ever, ever again. Before the final I was having nightmares about probabilities. THAT's how much it stressed me out.

:hug:

[seabeyond]

28. congrats. statistics is what made me run away from college.

took it twice. got only so far twice. second time said forget it.... and left.

glad you made it thru

[TheDebbieDee]

38. Thank you. Passing stats was a major hurdle............

[SoxFan]

29. 'grats!

I hated that course (they called it something else, like Quantitative Research Methods in Social Sciences, but same misery).

[TheDebbieDee]

39. Thanks!

[blue_onyx]

30. Congrats!

I actually loved statistics. Probably one of my fav. classes.

[TheDebbieDee]

40. I'm glad you found your calling with numbers........

[snooper2]

31. so explain erlang B usage for me again...

and why would one use the erlang B formula vs. erlang C? :)

[TheDebbieDee]

41. NO! I don't think so. No thanks!

Besides, I think my memory dump of all things statistics has been completed.

[W_HAMILTON]

32. How was your statistics class?

We had to take two at my college; the first one dealt almost strictly with formulas and crazy symbols -- it was horrible. The second was more applicable to real world situations, where we used more Excel and things like that. It was still difficult at times, but not as bad as the first statistics class, and it was a lot more fun.

Or are you talking about some super-high level engineering statistics class or something? :)

Congrats.

[TheDebbieDee]

43. This was ONLY Elementary Statistics! And I fried my brains passing it!

I think my head would just frikkin' explode if I had to tackle an advanced stats class.

[rrneck]

33. That's about

three grades higher than I could have done. Congrats!

[TheDebbieDee]

44. Thanks!

[Call Me Wesley]

42. Congrats!

:hi:

[TheDebbieDee]

45. Thanks, Wesley!

[elocs]

48. I took statistics in a Health Info program at the tech school about 17 years ago.

At that time I hadn't had a math class in 17 years and I had never used a calculator in a math class before, so surprise, surprise. I was the only guy in a class of about 18 and some of these females were just out of high school the year before and were totally freaked about taking Statistics which was a required class and one of the most failed (meaning you had to get a 'C').

I aced my first test and was feeling pretty good and thought I had things down pat for the second test, but I was surprised when I bombed that one badly. I then scrounged for every extra credit point and assignment I could get. In the end that class had 2 people who got an 'A' and I was one of them. The other was another nontraditional student, a single mom in her early 30s.

That 'A' in Stats was one of my proudest academic achievements so congratulations.