CS 6553 Performance Evaluation Midterm Exam: Spring 2004

The following list is tentative and will be modified based on the topics covered before the midterm.

Understand Chapters 1-5, 12-14, 30-31, 6-8, 10 of 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