CS 6553 Performance Evaluation Midterm Exam: Fall 2002
You may use your Jain book, the errata sheets, and a calculator.
Understand Chapters 1-5, 12-14, 30-31 if Jain
Some of the things you need to know how to do or know: (not all inclusive)
- Making comparisons relative to a base: see Chapter 1 notes
- Advantages and disadvantages of analytical models, simulation, measurement
- Basic probability
- Using the normal distribution
- Mean, median, mode, geometric mean, harmonic mean
- Indices of dispersion
- difference between variance of a distribution and sample variance
- quantile-quantile plots
- confidence intervals (one and 2-sides)
- testing for 0 mean
- comparing alternatives
- confidence intervals for proportions
- use of tables A.1, A.2, A.3, A.4
- regression
- queueing theory
- Little's Law
- All of the boxes in Chapter 31