BIOE 391 Fall 2006

Carolyn Nichol, PhD

cnichol@rice.edu

Held in SYMONDS II Computer lab

SCHEDULE

Lecture #	Day	Date	Topic	Reading	HW Assigned	HW Due
	Tuesday	8/29/2006	Introduction to numerical methods	Chapra Ch 1
	Thursday	8/31/2006	Matlab review	Chapra Ch 2-3	HW 1 doc HW1html	Survey
	Tuesday	9/5/2006	Errors/Taylor's series/num differentiation	Chapra Ch 4
	Thursday	9/7/2006	continued		HW 2	HW 1
	Tuesday	9/12/2006	Roots of equations protected	Chapra Ch 5-6
	Thursday	9/14/2006	Roots continued		HW 3	HW 2
	Tuesday	9/19/2006	Linear algebra methods Lecture 7 slides	Chapra Ch 7-9
	Thursday	9/21/2006	Linear algebra continued	Chapra Ch 9-10
	Tuesday	9/26/2006	review			HW 3
	Thursday	9/28/2006	- Exam 1 – 2005 2004 2006topics	Lectures 1-9
	Tuesday	10/3/2006	Intro to Descriptive statistics and graphics	Daniel Ch1- 2
	Thursday	10/5/2006	Basic Probability	Daniel Ch 3	HW 4
	Tuesday	10/10/2006	Probability and Sampling Distributions	Daniel Ch 4-5	Extra credit
	Thursday	10/12/2006	Estimation / Confidence Intervals	Daniel Ch 6	HW 5	HW 4 sln
	Tuesday	10/17/2006	No class
	Thursday	10/19/2006	Hypothesis testing Lecture	Daniel Ch 7	HW 6	HW 5 sln
	Tuesday	10/24/2006	ANOVA	Daniel Ch 8
	Thursday	10/26/2006	review			HW 6sln
	Tuesday	10/31/2006	- Exam 2 – 2005 2004	Lectures 9-17	HW 7
	Thursday	11/2/2006	Regression and correlation	Daniel 9 Chapra 12,13		Research proposal due
	Tuesday	11/7/2006	Numerical integration	Chapra Ch 16
	Thursday	11/9/2006	continued	Chapra Ch 17	HW 8	HW 7sln
	Tuesday	11/14/2006	Ordinary DEs	Chapra Ch 18
	Thursday	11/16/2006	continued	Chapra Ch 19	HW 9	HW 8sln
	Tuesday	11/21/2006	Eigenvalues	Chapra Ch 20		HW 9 sln
	Thursday	11/23/2006	Thanksgiving break
	Tuesday	11/28/2006	- Exam 3 - Exam 3 2005 review	Lectures 18-25		Extra credit due
	Thursday	11/30/2006	Student presentations
	Tuesday	12/5/06	Student presentations
	Thursday	12/7/06	Review Final exam 2005			Research papers due
		Finals	Take home Final Exam, due 12/20, 5 pm	Lecture 1-27