ELEC 471 Class Notes, Spring 2002

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

• Another introductory probability book from MIT:
  Introduction to Probability by Dimitri P. Bertsekas and John N. Tsitsiklis

• A more advanced book that is one of my favorites:
  Introduction to Statistical Signal Processing by R.M. Gray and L.D. Davisson

• January 17: MATLAB program monty.m to simulate Let's Make a Deal

• January 22:Instructions for new Matlab version

• January 22:Chapter 1 slides

• February 7: 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.

• February 26: MATLAB program sales.m to plot family of curves for model of salesperson.
  Click here to see the plot

• February 26:Chapter 2 slides

• March 26:
  • Solution to Problem 2.6.5
  • Solution to Problem 2.6.6

• March 28: Exercises with expectations

• April 2: Solutions to Chapter 2 example problems

• April 9:
  • MATLAB program poissbino.m to compare binomial and Poisson PMFs
  • Common Probability Distributions

• April 9-16:
  • Chapter 3 slides
  • Solution to problem 3.7.1

• April 18: Chapter 4 slides

• April 25, 30: Least-squares fitting
  • Straight line slope:
    Notes and MATLAB program lsline.m

  • 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

  • Read the following paper at IEEE Xplore:

    "Least squares adaptive processing in military applications," by Etter, D.M.; Steinhardt, A.O.; Stoner, S.L. IEEE Signal Processing Magazine, Volume 19, Issue 3, May 2002, Pages 66 -73.

  • April 30: MATLAB program digcomG.m for digital communication in Gaussian noise