COE-587 Performance Evaluation & Analysis
Major Exam on Thursday April 13th - 9:00 am - Place will be determined soon.
Click here for course syllabus.
The author's slides can be found at the following link: http://www.cse.wustl.edu/~jain/books/perf_sli.htm
Students are responsible for the material in the book and that in the handouts. The class notes are just "notes"; they may not cover all required material. The book is the reference for the required material. Be advised that the notes below are subject to change.
Review of basic probability theory and random variables - Author's slides for chapter 12 and 13. Also refer to my summary.
Markov Analysis - Note we started from slide 38 in this package - The focus is on Markov chains and their applicaitons
- A tool for probability distributions and quantiles
- Area under the unit normal distribution: Table A.1
- Tables for calculating normal quantiles: Table A.2 and Table A.3. For t-variate quantiles: Table A.4.
Assignment #1: Saturday Feb 25th, 2006 - Due date: March 11th, 2006 - in class - samples of good submissions are: 1 and 2.
Assignment #2: Saturday March 18th, 2006 - Due date: Monday April 3rd, 2006.
Assignment #3: Tuesday April 4th, 2006 - Due date: Saturday April 22nd, 2006 in class.
Basic information:
More detailed material at:
The MathWorks website - The makers of Matlab