The University of Iowa  57:022 Principles of Design II Spring Semester 2002

The Hypercard stacks used in presentation of the lectures are available for downloading:

• Some results from probability (1) pdf or (4) pdf
• Stochastic Processes (1).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • Bernouilli &Related Processes (1).pdf, or (8).pdf
    • Bernouilli Distribution
    • Binomial Distribution
    • Geometric Distribution
    • Pascal Distribution
  • Poisson Process (1).pdf, or (8).pdf
    • Poisson Distribution
    • Exponential Distribution
    • Erlang-k Distribution
    • Splitting & Merging of Poisson Processes (1).pdf, or (4).pdf
    • Exercises (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
• Extreme Value Distributions (1).pdf, (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • Gumbel Distribution(1).pdf, or (4).pdf
  • Weibull Distribution(1).pdf, or (4).pdf
    • Maximum Likelihood Estimation (1) pdf or (4) pdf
• Simulation
  • Generating Random Numbers (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • Discrete-Event Simulation Concepts (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • MonteCarlo simulation using Excel (Newsboy problem) (1).pdf, (4).pdf
  • Sampling Distributions (1).pdf, (4).pdf
• Goodness-of-Fit Test for Probability Distributions (1).pdf, (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
• Linear Regression (Curve Fitting) (1).pdf, (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
• Maximum Likelihood Estimation (1) pdf or (4) pdf
• Dynamic programming (DP) (used below in optimizing system reliability)
  • Introduction (2).pdf or (8).pdf
  • Game of Matches (1) pdf , (2).pdf or (8).pdf
• Reliability
  • Component Reliability (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • Fitting Weibull Model from Life-Test Data (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • System Reliability (1) pdf , (2).pdf or (8).pdf
  • Optimizing System Reliability via DP (1) pdf , (2).pdf or (8).pdf
• Project Management (1).pdf, (2).pdf or (8).pdf
  • Critical Path Method (Deterministic case) (1).pdf, (2).pdf or (8).pdf
  • PERT (Random activity durations) (1).pdf, (2).pdf or (8).pdf
  • Simulation of Random-Duration Project
• Queueing Models
  • Birth-Death Processes (1).pdf, (2).pdf, or (8).pdf
  • Brief Introduction to Queueing Models (1).pdf, (2).pdf, or (8).pdf

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