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Comment author: RobinZ 10 June 2010 12:36:36AM 0 points [-]

Are there some places you would suggest as tentative meeting-points? I have the combination to get into one of the student lounges at the University of Maryland, College Park, if you want tables, chairs, and a whiteboard.

Comment author: Jack 10 June 2010 01:33:36AM 0 points [-]

That'd probably be fine though not super convenient for me. Alternatively, the Georgetown University Library always has group study rooms free during the summer. What kind of math background do you have?

Comment author: RobinZ 10 June 2010 01:51:21AM 0 points [-]

Georgetown University Library isn't impossible, although I'd want help with the directions (particularly on locating the right building and right room in the building). My statistics background is the usual one-semester college course*, but I've got the full engineering-student education in calculus (I went as far as the partial differential equations course) and a smattering of linear algebra in the course of studying graduate dynamics and finite element methods. I usually pick it up fairly easily.

* The catalog entry for STAT400 in the year I took it states

Random variables, standard distributions, moments, law of large numbers and central limit theorem. Sampling methods, estimation of parameters, testing of hypotheses.