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	HansRosling Hans Rosling → 2012 had lowest Arctic Sea Ice Area Minimum ever. The 2013-line is now identical to 2012-line: Daily updates here http://t.co/ERQLireKyu May 19, 2013, 5:11 a.m. CDT
	HansRosling Hans Rosling → RT @G_stordalen: Does slower warming than predicted means that the world no longer has to worry? Answer is no, @TheEconomist tells why http… May 19, 2013, 4:56 a.m. CDT
	HansRosling Hans Rosling → RT @UNIDO: Population growth and climate change explained by Swedish academic Hans Rosling – video http://t.co/iVZe2LdHCd via @guardian May 19, 2013, 12:13 a.m. CDT
	HansRosling Hans Rosling → There are only 4 part-time professionals at the World Bank to coordinate measurements of world poverty!! Read this: http://t.co/T2x5J4039A May 17, 2013, 5:17 p.m. CDT
	HansRosling Hans Rosling → UNICEF asks for bids from those wanting to develop data dissemination systems for info on the world children https://t.co/D6ktGWHrIb May 17, 2013, 5:07 p.m. CDT
	StatFact Stat Fact → The transform y = arcsine(sqrt(x)) can make proportion data approximately normally distributed. May 17, 2013, 1:16 p.m. CDT
	StatCan_eng Statistics Canada → Most recent immigrants (56.9%) came from Asia (including the Middle East) #2011NHS http://t.co/12x4V6ZEZS May 17, 2013, 1 p.m. CDT
	RLangTip One R Tip a Day → Return the row/column indices of positive elements of matrix x: which(x>0, arr.ind=TRUE) #rstats http://t.co/reo3hy7LLv May 17, 2013, 11:05 a.m. CDT
	ProbFact Probability Fact → If X ~ chi-squared(w) and Y ~ chi-squared(v) then (X/w) / (Y/v) ~ F(w, v). http://t.co/wpRNCOCtWI May 17, 2013, 11:03 a.m. CDT
	TeXtip TeX tips → TeX uses `` for opening double quotes and '' for closing double quotes. http://t.co/5rALtX6Bsy #1 May 17, 2013, 9:46 a.m. CDT

Important Date

May 20: Victoria Day (University Closed)

Upcoming Exams

STAT 2000 A01 Midterm
Tuesday, May 21 at 8:30 a.m.

STAT 1000 A03 Midterm 1
Thursday, May 23 at 7:00 p.m.

STAT 1000 A01 Midterm 1
Friday, May 24 at 8:30 a.m.

STAT 1000 A02 Midterm 1
Friday, May 24 at 8:30 a.m.

Upcoming Seminar

Chris Wild, Department of Statistics, The University of Auckland: “The Need for Speed in the Path of the Deluge”
Thursday, May 23 at 2:45 p.m.
316 Machray Hall