CURM Seventh Meeting, 10/14/2008

Agenda

• First of all, important planning stuff: would it be okay to meet next Thursday, since Tuesday is a day off? Jon Hastings can come at 3:30.

• Last time we had a look at non-linear regression on a couple of other situations. We also planned out an attack on some of the modeling that we need to do for the Wasp project:
  • Grayson was going to be looking at the distributions of the four cicada species.
  • Katie was going to be looking into the distributions of cicadas taken by wasps of various lengths.
  • I also asked Katie to look into the data of the wing lengths versus body masses, with an eye towards developing a power model that will improve on the linear regression model originally proposed.

• What have we discovered?

• What did you think of the current current Problem of the Week?

• Jon Hastings has some answers for some of our questions.

• A different kind of Problem of the Week. The questions are:
  • Which package is the best deal?
  • What is the value of each component of the packages?

• Links:
  • CURM Research Group
  • Wasp project resources