This is not going to end well.

[cyrano]

After three hours in the math lab today I quit and went home, just about the time I discovered that even the tutors there couldn't tell me how to do this. I predict a more and more messy wrap up, with four weeks of the outer shell burning away, the conflagration constantly fed by the leaking hydrogen from within. Hopefully by the time I hit the ground most of the observers will have been able to clear the area. I'm trying to make an appointment to find out whether withdrawl is any better than failing at this late date, and if I have other options.
I cannot tell you when I use x, x-bar, mu, p, p-hat, z, z*, t, t* or any of the other variants let alone when I should take the value from a formula or a table or when degrees of freedom are important. And that statement probably made as much sense to you as it does to me, unless you're Jake.
Regardless. If I'd had my cigarettes with me, I would have been smoking. I'll have to settle for alcohol.

Comments

[nuadha-prime.livejournal.com]

Our instructor warned us at the beginning of our class that the math lab will be little help with statistics since math majors often don't understand statistics and it is usually staffed by math majors.

[cyranocyrano.livejournal.com]

Alas, yes. There are four of the tutors who are tagged as 'can help with statistics'. Many of them, I get the impression that they feel uncomfortable doing so and would prefer if somebody else would handle it.
Megan, however, has been *amazing*. If I were allowed to tip the tutors, I totally would.