ELEC 471 Class Notes, Spring 2001

• Chapter 1 of Yates/Goodman text (PDF format)

• Common Probability Distributions

• January 18: MATLAB program monty.m to simulate Let's Make a Deal

• February 8: MATLAB programs digcom1.m and digcom2.m to begin simulation of digital communication system with discrete-amplitude noise

• February 20: Class exercise on probability of bit error

• February 20: News of an unbreakable code

• February 22: MATLAB program sales.m to plot family of curves for model of salesperson.

• February 26:Chapter 2 slides

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

• March 20: Solutions to Ch. 2 example problems

• March 29:Chapter 3 slides

• April 10:Solution to problem 3.7.1

• April 10: Hat color problem

• April 12:Chapter 4 slides

• April 26: MATLAB program digcomG.m for digital communication in Gaussian noise

• April 26: Least-squares fit of straight line slope
  • Notes and
  • MATLAB program lsline.m

• May 1: Least-squares fit of sine wave amplitude and DC offset
  • Notes
  • MATLAB program sinls.m

• May 1: Notes on least-squares modeling of systems and MATLAB program lsq.m

• May 1: Notes on least-squares fit of arterial waveforms