This page is organized by the weeks of the quarter in which lectures were given and papers assigned. The weeks are in inverse order, on the assumption you will most often be looking for the most recent week.
This class will be taught by Peter Reiher. The textbook is The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis, by Raj Jain. Assigned readings are from this book, unless otherwise indicated.
I will be lecturing on these subjects during the class.
No new reading assignment for today.
No new reading assignment for today.
Textbook: Chapters 10 and 11 (pp 139-174).
Lecture 12. PPT again, due to a single equation.
No reading assignment for today.
Here are the answers to homework 3.
I neglected to post the answers to homework 2 earlier. Here they are.
Lecture 11. Back to PDF handouts.
No textbook assignment for today.
The fifith homework assignment is now available. It is due by the start of class one week from today, May 17. You may turn in a hard copy or submit your answers by email.
Lecture 10. More equations, so this is in Powerpoint.
Textbook: Chapters 20 and 21 (pp 327-366).
Lecture 9. More equations, so this is in Powerpoint.
Textbook: Chapters 18 and 19 (pp 293-326).
No lecture today because of the experimental design presentations.
The fourth homework assignment is now available. It is due by the start of class one week from today, May 10. You may turn in a hard copy or submit your answers by email.
Lecture 8. More equations, so this is in Powerpoint.
Textbook: Section 15.1 (pp 244-254) and Chapters 16 and 17 (pp 275-292).
Here's the data and calculations for the extended example of IMDB movie rankings that I used in class.
Remember, your project proposal is due on Thursday!
The third homework assignment is now available. It is due by the start of class one week from today, May 3. You may turn in a hard copy or submit your answers by email.
Here are the answers to homework 1.
Textbook: Chapters 7-9, pages 93-138.
No textbook reading for today. Instead, . . .
Remember, your project proposal is due one week from today!
The second homework assignment is now available. It is due by the start of class one week from today, April 26. You may turn in a hard copy or submit your answers by email.
Lecture 5. No equations today, so we're back to the PDF form.
Textbook: Chapters 4,5, and 6, pages 47-91.
Dr. Reiher will be out of town, so there will be no class today. We will meet again on Thursday.
Lecture 4. Note that these slides are in Powerpoint, not PDF. The PDF renderings of some equations in previous lectures were unusable, so I'm putting up the original Powerpoint version, instead. I have also made the Powerpoint versions of lectures 2 and 3 available, listed under those lectures below.
Textbook: Chapter 14. sections 15.5 and 15.6. You might find it helpful to read all of chapter 15, which is on multiple linear regression and other issues in regression modeling.
Textbook: Chapter 13.
Textbook: Chapter 12.
Textbook: Chapters 1-3.