MA495 Special Topics in Mathematics: Mathematical Modeling
Handy Documents

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General Documents

Document	Description
How to Earn Math Cults	Explains how you can earn your mathematics culture points
Homework Requirements	Explains how you should write-up your individual hand-in homework problems.
Project Requirements	Explains project rules and how you should write up your group project assignments.
Group Project Team Member Evaluation Form	This is the form you will use after each project for peer evaluation.  It is a Word document.
Student Skills Assessment Form	I will use this to try to assign you to homogeneous teams (in terms of the skills you will bring to your team projects).
Megastat Zip File	Here are the directions for installing Megastat on your computer.  The link to the zip file will only be available for a short time.
A Pdf File - Box Plots in Excel	Gives directions on how to use Excel to create boxplots.
Box Plot Macro for Excel	Draws up to five box plots on the same axes.  Data for each box plot must be in a column.  You will need to set macro security (under Tools) to "low" in order to use this macro.  It is also freely available from this website.
Normal Quantile Plot Macro for Excel	Draws a normal quantile plot for a set of data points.  Used to see if it is a reasonable assumption that the data you are examining has come from a normal distribution.  You will need to set macro security (under Tools) to "low" in order to use this macro.  It is also freely available from this website.
How to Use Derive Word       PDF	A brief introduction to Derive written by our own Dr. Webber.
Introduction to Derive (pdf format)	A more detailed introduction to Derive (freely available on the Derive website)
Using Derive to fit a Logistic Curve	A .dfw file that shows how to use the NonlinearRegression user defined functions to fit a curve that is not linearizable.
Getting Started with MATLAB	A pdf file with basics on how to use MatLab.
Numerical Computing with MATLAB by Cleve Molar	This handy document is actually a link to the Academic portion of the MATLAB Site.  Click on "Textbook by Cleve Molar" under the Faculty Center.  It is highly recommended to download the NCM files (available as a zip file on-line and below for your convenience).
NCM Files	A zip file that contains Data Files, Guis, and m files to accompany the text by Cleve Molar above.   Also available on the MATLAB Academic site.
MATLAB Tutorials	This link takes you to the Student Center of the MATLAB Site  - go to the Academia page to see other Student Center links.