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R(sub y)(sub x): the correlation coefficient in a sample.
Partial correlation coefficient: a measure of association for continuous variabless that shows the magnitude and direction of covariation between two variables that remains after the effects of a control variable have been held constant.

Sigh. Last statistics exam tomorrow, and I'm not going to pretend that I understood everything that I just typed. Medicrity rules, people...I'm trying to get out of this finals period alive. Head down, everyone. It's almost festivus!

What my life is like, right now, besides the above: Hearing the lowest vocal registers of the woman who lives on the floor above me. It's almost like in Peanuts, when the teacher's voice is a trombone? I don't want to hear what she is saying, I have shit to do, but man if I'm going to be hearing all the low tones in her voice I might as well be hearing everything. Whoooh whoooh whoooh. She slams around at 2 am, then again at 7am. Does she sleep? What does her voice really sound like? Does she move her dresser across the floor every night as the dull scrape around 9:45PM suggests? Maybe it's time to turn on some music. This isn't exactly what I wanted to write about tonight.

So right now, it's one down three papers to go. I'm feeling really optimistic: once classes are over, and the sadism of assigning a BOOK the last week of class (!) is over, I can be the writing MACHINE! Saw the shrink today, yes I am one of those early twenty-somethings, felt better looking at http://cutethingsfallingasleep.blogspot.com than talking to the slightly grim grey Jersey lady who threw some manual of Mental Health Disorders (TM) at me.


Random tangent for my Angelenos:

There will be drinking, there will be merrymaking the 31st of December with your friends from the (wrong) coast. Let me know if any plans are simmering. All I know is, don't let Mahea buy the table Kamikaze shots.