10.34  Numerical Methods: Chem Eng

Dear Class,

Your scores for the final exam have been entered in Gradebook.  The mean was 66/125 with a standard deviation of 16.  Your letter grades should be posted on WebSIS by early January.  Thanks for a great semester and good luck to those of you taking the Qualifying Exam in January.

Happy Holidays,
Mike, Joe, and Prof. Green

The Matlab function to make noisy signals, used to illustrate use of SVD for signal processing and deconvolution, has been posted.

Dear Class,

On page 7 of the HW10 solutions, there is an error in Equation (1).  The equation should read:
   chi2_approx = chi2_best + (theta-theta_best)T * (2*JT*J) * (theta-theta_best)

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Dear Class,

In office hours this past Monday, I reminded you that the consistency check (as presented in lecture #29 on 21-Nov-2008) was gamma(nu/2, chi^2/2) / gamma(nu/2).  Furthermore, I mentioned that you can use the MATLAB built-in functions gammainc and gamma to compute the value of the consistency check.

The formula I wrote down in office hours (gamminc(argument1,argument2) / gamma(argument1)) is incorrect.  Please read the MATLAB help files on gammainc and gamma to determine what the correct formula is.

I apologize for the mistake.  Please email the TAs if you have any questions.
Mike