| Syllabus
(pdf) Course outline (pdf) Datasets |
Tentative
schedule of tests and
quizzes Presentations schedule Presentation guidelines |
| Matlab: usage tips and
programming code MatLab tips Selected routines (in a single file) Programming code for the Lake Temperatures dataset: elimination of outliers LakeTemperature.m Main program sergeiRemoveNaNs.m Subroutine. Copy file to your Matlab directory. sergeiRemoveOutliers.m Subroutine. Copy file to your Matlab directory. sergeiRunning.m Subroutine. Copy file to your Matlab directory. Analysis of time series increments in Lake Superior air temperatures (SupTimSer.m) Code for autocorrelation in Greenland-Antarctica ice cores (GATimSer.m) Fourier analysis of Lake Superior air temperatures Analyses of time series of events Generator code for the Lorenz Attractor: LorenzAttractor.m Comparison of ten simultaneous Brownian walks: BrownianWalksRace.m Principal Component Analysis PCA.m (Matlab Help example with rankings of US cities) PCAoecd.m (example with the OECD dataset from Assignment 6) PCAsup.m (Analysis of the Lake Superior air temperature, Exercise 19) Monte Carlo: MonteCarlo.m (Calculation of the area of a circle - as in Bevington) |
| Further
reading Wavelets Article in Wikipedia An introduction to wavelets Introduction to wavelets in Matlab help A collection of wavelet resources Principal Component Analysis PCA tutorial article |
| Data
visualization Information-is-beautiful web site and a talk on TED and a video on YouTube |
| Articles
for discussions and data analyses: Levy distributions and animal foraging behaviors: Viswanathen et al. (1996) Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses. Nature 381: pp. 413-415. (accessible from campus, e.g. through the Web of Knowledge or library's e-journals.) Edwards et al. (2007) Revisiting Levy flight search patterns of wandering albatrosses, bumblebees and deer. Nature 449, pp. 1044-1049. Additional reading: A plain-language commentary on the same topic. Miscelaneous topics Middelburg, J.J. "A simple rate model for organic matter decomposition in marine sediments." Geochimica et Cosmochimica Acta 53 (1989): 1577-1581. Wunsch, C., The spectral description of climate change including the 100KY energy, Clim. Dyn., DOI 10.1007/s00382-002-0279-z, 2002 (link). Wunsch, C., Greenland–Antarctic phase relations and millennial time-scale climate fluctuations in the Greenland cores, Quaternary Sci. Revs. 22, 1631-1646, 2003 (link). Physicists decode the Bard (Use of entrophy in analyses of literary texts). Nature News, 2001. (link with reference to the original paper) Corduas et al. 2008. The distribution of humor in literary texts is not random: A statistical analysis. (link) Econophysicists matter. Nature Editorial, 2006 (link) |