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Date	Topic, Handouts	Assignments/Due dates
Aug. 31	Introduction and course logistics, Statistical Summarization of Data lecture1.pdf	Get familiar Matlab; Matlab Primer   Read Ch. 1-3
Sep. 7	Review of Probability Distribution Confidence Intervals, Quantile, Q-Q plots lecture2.pdf	Homework 1 (due September 21)
Sep. 14	Modelling errors, Confidence intervals contd. lecture3.pdf	Read Chapter 4
Sep. 21	Comparing alternatives, Analysis of Variance ANOVA lecture4.pdf	Read Chapter 5 Homework 2 (due October 5)
Sep. 28	Hypothesis testing, Design on Experiments lecture5.pdf	Read Chapter 9 D. Lilja paper
Oct. 5	Linear Regression lecture6.pdf Linear Algebra Review review.pdf	Read Chapter 8 Homework 3 (due October 19), solution
Oct. 12	No Class - Columbus Day recess
Oct. 19	Constrained Least Squares, MLE Estimation lecture7.pdf	MLE Least Squares handout
Oct. 26	Midterm exam
Nov. 2	Simulation, Monte Carlo Simulation lecture8.pdf	Read Chapter 10
Nov. 9	Importance Sampling, Markov Processes Eigenanalysis lecture9.pdf	Project Proposal Due Homework 4 (due Nov. 24) Read sampling paper G. Strang Lectures 21 and part of 24, Class notes
Nov. 16	Data Clustering, K-NN guest_lecture.pdf
Nov. 23	PCA, Multidimensional Scaling, ISOMAP lecture10.pdf	Readings PCA notes
Nov. 30	Workload characterization, Queueing Analysis lecture11.pdf , lecture12.pdf	Homework 4 sol
Dec. 7	Final exam, project write up guidelines cs700-project.pdf
Dec. 14	Final Project Presentation 4:30-7:15pm	formatting instructions latex (.tar.gz) MS word (.doc)

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