Class Agenda for 5/10

• The W connector of a queue
• Bootstrap confidence intervals for the median:

  bootstrap-median.xls

• Matched-pairs experiments in Extend:

  solution-sjf-pairs.mox

• Chaos
• Verification and Validation
• Recap
• Display of red/blue states. This is a delightful website describing how misleading the traditional red/blue maps are

Bootstrap Revisited

Let's consider three ways to get a sampling distribution

• Theoretical calculations from a theoretical population:

  

• Empirical calculations (Monte Carlo estimations) from a theoretical population:

  

• Empirical calculations (Monte Carlo estimations) from an unknown population, using the sample to stand for the population.

  

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