Learning objectives

  • articulate both personal and work-related goals for the upcoming academic year/quarter
  • uncover some of the hidden curriculum in graduate school and articulate strategies for continuing to do so
  • understand what a matrix and a vector are and how to multiply matrices with vectors
  • be able to represent a prediction equation in matrix notation
  • understand and interpret basic calculus relevant to a statistics context (e.g., limits, derivatives, integrals)

Link to slides.