ELEC 471 Class Notes, Fall 2010

August 25: Time/day changes for ELEC 400 and 471

• For the first week, August 25-27, 2010, ELEC 400 and 471 will meet as follows:
  ELEC 471: WRF, 11:00 - 11:52 AM, BRKI 065
  ELEC 400: WF, 3:00 - 4:22 PM, Dana 115
  
• Then beginning on August 30 and continuing for the rest of the semester, the schedule will be as follows:
  ELEC 471: MWF, 11:00-11:52 AM, BRKI 065 and W 3:00-4:22 PM in Dana 221
  (actually 3:00-3:52 with extra time available for exams).
  ELEC 400: R 11:00-11:52 AM in BRKI 065 and F 3:00-4:22 PM in Dana 115

August 26: On-line probability texts and references:

• Web site for our textbook:
  Probability and Stochastic Processes: A Friendly Introduction for Electrical & Computer Engineers (Second Edition), Roy D. Yates and David J. Goodman, John Wiley Publishers, 2005.
• A more advanced book on probability that is one of my favorites:
  Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing by R.M. Gray and L.D. Davisson
• Virtual Laboratory in Probability and Statistics (from University of Alabama in Huntsville)
  (See discussion of the Monty Hall problem under 12. Games of Chance)
• MATLAB program monty.m to simulate Let's Make a Deal

September 15: Interesting problem

September 15: MATLAB programs digcom1.m and digcom2.m to begin simulation of digital communication system with discrete-amplitude noise.
See also monty.m for Let's Make a Deal simulation, which shows how to do multiple "runs" with a for loop.

September 16: Statistics in the news

September 22: MATLAB program sales.m to plot family of curves for model of salesperson.
Click here to see the plot

• October 8: MATLAB program poissbino.m to compare binomial and Poisson PMFs

• December 3: Least-squares fitting
  • Slope of straight line through origin:
    See Homework 10 and solution

  • Sine wave amplitude and DC offset:
    Notes and MATLAB program sinls.m

  • Modeling of linear systems:
    Notes and and MATLAB program lsq.m

  • Arterial pressure waveforms: Notes