Homework 2
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Homework 2¶
Type your name and email in the “Student details” section below.
Develop the code and generate the figures you need to solve the problems using this notebook.
For the answers that require a mathematical proof or derivation you can either:
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The total homework points are 100. Please note that the problems are not weighed equally.
Note
This is due before the beginning of the next lecture.
Please match all the pages corresponding to each of the questions when you submit on gradescope.
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Problem 1 - Lists¶
Consider the following list:
data = [1, 4, 3, 10, 4, 3, 4, 4]
Add the element 6 at the end of data:
# your code here
Add the list [0, -1, 3] at the begining of data
# your code here
How many elements are in the data?
# your code here
Extract all data elements from the second to the second to last (inclusive).
# your code here
Extract all data elements from the second to the second to last (inclusive) skipping every other element.
# your code here
Sort the list.
# your code here
Find the minimum of the list.
# your code here
Find the average of the elements in the list.
# your code here
Problem 2 - Numerical Python¶
Let’s make a random array:
import numpy as np
np.random.seed(12345) # We need this so that we get the same numbers
# every time we runt the following code
x = np.random.randn(100)
x
Find the minimum of x.
# your code here
Find the maximum of x.
Find the maximum of x.
# your code here
Use x.shape to get the number of elements of x as an integer.
# your code here
Find the sum of all the elements of x divided by the number of elements of x. This is the average.
# your code here
Compare the average you found above with the result of x.mean(). Are they the same?
# your code here
Square the elements of x and store them in a new array called x2.
# your code here
Find the average of x2 and subtract from it the square of average of x.
# your code here
Compare the result you found on the cell above with x.var(). Are they the same? (Remark: You just calculated the empirical variance of the “data” x in two different ways!)
# your code here