• Activate your GMU e-mail account. All class-related communication will be sent to your GMU account.
• Please have a memory stick always available for the class.
• Presentation by Daniel Menasce at a panel at the Workshop on Experimental Computer Science, San Diego, June 13-14, 2007.
• Generate 100 random numbers from a i) exponential distribution, ii) normal distribution, iii) lognormal distribution and compute the major statistics for your data. Compare the average (and in some cases the standard deviation) with that of the underlying theoretical distribution. Due date: 2/2/2009.
• Study chap. 12 of the textbook and do exercises 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, and 12.7. Due date: 2/2/2009.
• In class exercises: download the following MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified in them Estimation I, Estimation II, and System Comparison.
• Study chapter 13 of the textbook and do exercise 13.2. Due: 2/9/2009.
• In class exercises for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheet QuantileExerciseInClass.xls and do the assignment specified in it.
• In class exercise for 2/16/2009: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified in it: Curve Fitting,
• In class exercise for 2/16/2009: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified in it: Estimation III.
• Project Proposal due TBA. Please describe in one page the problem you want to address, the experimental procedures you will carry out, and the methodology you intend to use.
• Study chapter 14 of the book for 2/23/2009.
• In class exercises for date 2/23/2009: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Regression Exercise I.
• Study chapter 15 of the book for date TBA.
• In class exercises for date TBA: download the following MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Regression Exercise II and Multiple Linear Regression.
• Study chapter 15 of the book for date TBA.
• In class exercise for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Curvilinear Regression.
• Midterm Review.
• In class exercise for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Hypothesis Testing
• Study chapter 16 of the book for date TBA.
• In class exercise for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheets and do the assignments specified there: Single Factor Experimental Analysis.
• In class exercise for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignments specified there: Two Factor Experimental Analysis Example.
• In class exercise for date TBA: download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignments specified there: Performance in Class.
• In class exercise for (date TBA): download the MS Excel spreadsheet and do the assignment specified there: Simulation Exercise.
• Exercise in class about message transmission experiment.
• QN exercise in class.
• Take home final. Due on May 11, 2009 before 10:00am by e-mail attachment. Please name your file using the following convention: Lastname-Firstinitial.xls (for example Smith-J.xls). Please wait for an acknowlegement from me before going on vacation.

Last updated: May 3, 2009.