Schedule

Date

Topics

Readings (from Lilja); See also Recommended Readings

Slides  

9/1

Introduction; Metrics

Chapter 1, 2

Lecture 1

9/8

Summarizing Measured Data

Chapter 3, notes

Lecture 2

9/15

Computing Confidence Intervals

Chapter 4

Lecture 3

9/22

Measuring Performance

Chapter 6

Lecture 4

9/22, 9/29

Simulation

Chapter 10

Lecture 5

9/29

Hypothesis Testing

Chapter 4, notes

Lecture 6

10/6

Comparing Alternatives

Chapter 5

Lecture 7

10/6, 10/20

Simple Regression Models

Chapter 8

Lecture 8

10/20

Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Chapter 6

Lecture 9

11/3

Design of Experiments

Chapter 9

Lecture 10

11/10

Design of Experiments (cont'd)

Chapter 9

Lecture 11

11/10

Workload Characterization/Data Analysis

Chapter 6

Lecture 12

11/17

Data Clustering

Data Clustering article

Lecture 13

11/17, 11/24

Queueing Analysis

Chapter 11

Lecture 14