MATLAB for Math 30530

Introductory resources for MATLAB

• Here is a brief introduction to MATLAB.

• Here is a crash course in MATLAB, a brief introduction geared towards this course.

• The official MATLAB getting started guide from Mathworks, also available as a pdf

• MATLAB video tutorials

• A Guide to MATLAB for beginners and experienced users, 2nd edition by Hunt, Lipsman and Rosenberg is on the reference shelf in the Mathematics Library (basement of Hayes-Healy) and also available electronically through the library

Demonstrations

• Discrete simulations, section 1.1
• m-files
• chapter1_1_demo.m
• cointosses.m
• cointosses2.m
• demere1.m
• demere2.m

• Game of Heads or Tails
  • Peter's cummulative winnings (or losses) htsim.m
  • Bar graph of Peter's winnings (or losses) when he plays the game many times htsim2.m

• Continuous simulations, section 2.1
• m-files
• chapter2_demo.m
• montecarlo.m

• Binomial distribution section 3.2


• m-files
• binomial_distribution.m

• Plots of the beta density, section 4.2
• m-files
  • beta_density_plots.m

• Normal density section 5.2
• m-files
• normal.m

• Convolution of discrete distributions section 7.1
• m-file
• chapter7_1.m

Code for homework

• Chapter 1

  • comments about the code
  • Problem 1.3
  • Problem 1.1 #15, first version
  • Problem 1.1 #15, second version

• Chapter 2

  • Section 2.1 #5,6 alter the file montecarlo.m

• Chapter 3

  • Section 3.1 Problem 19 (e)

Additional code

• Peter Doyle's code for probability simulations and computations using Matlab