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crap to remember for AP Stats

Last edited: August 8, 2025

crap to remember for AP Stats is a cram sheet for the AP Statistics exam.


95% confidence: \(z^*=1.96\)

  • \(r=1\): perfect positive correlation
  • \(r=-1\): perfect negative correlation
  • \(r=0\): no correlation
  • S: standard deviation of residuals
  • R-sq: how much of varience in dep. var can be explained by indp. var

SE: estimate of standard deviation of the random var. that is slope.

crash recovery

Last edited: August 8, 2025

Major Challenges

  • data loss: crashes can happen, and not all data could be saved to disk
  • inconsistency: crashes can happen in the middle of operations
    • crashes could occur when someone of the blocks that have been written to disk, but not others
    • inode and free lists don’t agree.

Ideally, filesystem operations should be atomic. Every operation should happen or not happen at all—but not halfway.

Case study: Block Cache Modification

Tradeoffs

The overall design tradeoffs between this:

credit

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Credit Suisse

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critical value

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