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3.00 Credits
Steele. Prerequisite(s): STAT 900. Selected topics in the theory of probability and stochastic processes.
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Steele. Prerequisite(s): A graduate course in statistics or econometrics. Familiarity with linear algebra. This graduate course introduces students to the time series methods and practices which are most relevant to the analysis of financial and economic data. The course will address both theoretical and empirical issues. Extensive use will be made of the S-Plus Statistical Language, but no previous experience of S-Plus will be required. The course begins with a quick review of ARIMA models. Most of the course is devoted to ARCH, GARCH, threshold, switching Markov, state space, and nonlinear models.
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Staff. Prerequisite(s): STAT 541, 551, 552, 925, or equivalents; permission of instructor. Survey of methods for the analysis of large unstructured data sets: detection of outliers, Winsorizing, graphical techniques, robust estimators, multivariate problems.
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3.00 Credits
Staff. This seminar will be taken by doctoral candidates after the completion of most of their coursework. Topics vary from year to year and are chosen from advance probability, statistical inference, robust methods, and decision theory with principal emphasis on applications.
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3.00 Credits
May be counted toward the Hum/SocSci or NatSci/Math Sectors. Class of 2010. Adams. Examines the emergence and development of the scientific world view, from the Renaissance to the end of the 20th century. Explores the history of scientific ideas, the social contexts which gave rise to them, and their social and human implications. Sample topics include: Copernican revolution; Galileo, science and the Church; Newton and the mechanical worldview; Enlightenment and Romantic science; Lavoisier, industrialization and the rise of modern chemistry; Darwin, Darwinism and evolution; atomic physics, the bomb and its aftermath; the emergence of modern genetics; the DNA revolution; computers and the information age; and science and the human future.
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History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Barnes. This course surveys the history of medical knowledge and practice from ancient times to the present. No prior background in the history of science or medicine is required. The course has two principal goals (1) to give students a practical introduction to the fundamental questions and methods of the history of medicine and (2)to foster a sophisticated, critical understanding of medicine's complex role in contemporary society.
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3.00 Credits
Society Sector. All classes. Cowan/Ensmenger. "We shape our technolgies; thereafter they shape us." This course surveys the ways in which technology has shaped our societies and our relations with the natural world. We will examine the origins and impact of technical developments throughout human history and across the globe--from stone tools, agriculture and cave painting to ancient cities, metallurgy and aqueducts; from windmills, cathedrals, steam engines and electricity to atom bombs, the internet and genetic engineering. We will pay attention to the aesthetic, religious and mythical dimensions of technological change and consider the circumstances in which innovations emerge and their effects on social order, on the environment and on the ways humans understand themselves
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Tresch. Victor Frankenstein created a monster. But he didn't make it out of nothing: he found body parts in operation rooms and graves, sewed them together, and invested the new whole with life following scripts laid down by thinkers both ancient and new. Likewise, in creating Frankenstein, one of the greatest novels of all time, Mary Shelley put together elements from gothic fiction, moral and political philosophy, romantic poetry and contemporary science. What were the books that Victor Frankenstein read What ideas animated Shelley's act of creation in this seminar we will read from the primary texts that made up Frankenstein and Shelley's libraries, along with closely related works from this period, ranging from Renaissance magic, modern electrochemistry and physiology, through to Rousseau, Smith, Milton, Poe and Balzac. These readings will bring to life a crucial monment in the history of the West--after the French Revolution and at the start of the industrial age--which will give us perspective on today's anxieties about technology and science.
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3.00 Credits
Natural Science & Mathematics Sector. Class of 2010 and beyond. Domoter. Also fulfills General Requirement in Science Studies for Class of 2009 and prior. This course will present a detailed introduction to Einstein's special and general theories of relativity and will examine their historical development and philosophical significance. No previous physics or philosophy will be presupposed, and only high school mathematics will be used.
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3.00 Credits
History & Tradition Sector. All classes. Staff. Throughout human history, the relationships of science and religion, as well as of science and magic, have been complex and often surprising. This course will cover topics ranging from the links between magic and science in the seventeenth century to contemporary anti-science movements.
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