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by mathword
January 27th, 2006, 1:15 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: sas - quartile
Replies: 0
Views: 120545

sas - quartile

<t>student average123 ----- 59785------ 78368----- 7817-------- 84021236-----892598---- 912599---- 9116----- 60I want to group them by qurtiles (by average). Each quartile will have 2 students. Here is the problem. Would you put student 785 in the first quartile or student 3689? Tough eh. So I want ...
by mathword
November 15th, 2004, 9:30 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: MMF at UT vs MStats (Finance) at Wloo
Replies: 6
Views: 170750

MMF at UT vs MStats (Finance) at Wloo

apply to both and decide when u get offer from both.
by mathword
June 10th, 2004, 2:58 am
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: CFA readings
Replies: 5
Views: 188006

CFA readings

<t>Hi fishfillet,I'm afraid that u got to read everything that is mentioned in the LOS. Some like to read books and some just read the notes when they prepare for any tests/exams. I don't know what type u r. There r strong pros & cons for both ways. There r # of study guides available in the mar...
by mathword
June 8th, 2004, 1:46 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: CFA exam results
Replies: 2
Views: 189403

CFA exam results

If u want to discuss more abt u'r qns, go to http://www.analystforum.com/phorums/list.php?f=1
by mathword
November 30th, 2003, 10:31 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Data needed for Queuing theory project
Replies: 18
Views: 190609

Data needed for Queuing theory project

<t>I used the following approximation to get the parameters of the distributions. I was going to assume that the data I would get follow exponentail distri. So this new approximation is ok I think. Using those parameters, I found the all the outputs that are needed. There is a software comes with Fr...
by mathword
November 30th, 2003, 3:40 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Data needed for Queuing theory project
Replies: 18
Views: 190609

Data needed for Queuing theory project

<t>first of all, I'm not a gal and it has nothing to do with the help that I asked for. Don't u guys ever help guys? Maelo: I agree that the actual model is complicated...we only learned the cases when number of new customers follows Poisson distri. Also, the serving time is exponential. Can you ple...
by mathword
November 29th, 2003, 4:06 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Data needed for Queuing theory project
Replies: 18
Views: 190609

Data needed for Queuing theory project

<t>Hi Maelo,I'm not cheating. I wasn't supposed to get the data and do the analysis(originally, it was meant to be a written reprt only...more like an essay), but I wanted to do some analysis so I talked to the proff. He said that's a good idea and finally here I'm. Offcourse I'm going to tell him t...
by mathword
November 28th, 2003, 8:54 pm
Forum: Student Forum
Topic: Data needed for Queuing theory project
Replies: 18
Views: 190609

Data needed for Queuing theory project

<t>I'm working on a small project (just 5% worth). It's about queuing theory. I'm supposed to go to a restaurent and get the data(waiting time for each customer and the time taken to serve the customer). Since it's almost the end of the term, I decided to use the data that is already obtained. Do yo...
by mathword
November 21st, 2003, 9:49 pm
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: do you 'google search' a new employee?
Replies: 11
Views: 190903

do you 'google search' a new employee?

u guys r so funny
by mathword
November 21st, 2003, 3:23 am
Forum: Careers Forum
Topic: Critique or Improve my CV !
Replies: 6
Views: 190505

Critique or Improve my CV !

<t>Credit Suisse First Boston Summer 2003 => Credit Suisse First Boston - Summer 2003I conducted financial ... => conducted financial ... ( u don't use pronouns in cv/resume)Every graduate knows how to use Microsoft Office Applications and MSIE/Netscape.(so childish) Put any databases, programming, ...