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For my talk I didn’t assume anyone had worked with Markov chains before, so I include the same “coin-flipping” example as in the tennis application as an example.ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Mathematica is used both to find the results under different strategies and to see which of those results is the overall best. I analyze the problem by modeling the Truel as a single Markov chain, where different strategies are represented via parameters in the chain. The question is how should A pick a target to maximize his or her chance of surviving the duel. You don’t know the specific accuracy of the three shooters other than A is the worst (which is why A goes first) and C is the best (which is why C shoots last in the initial cycle). The Truel problem is where you have 3 shooters A, B, and C in a duel and they get to fire in that order. In the Fall 2015 semester I gave a talk to the SE Math Club on the three-way duel problem (also known as the “Truel” problem). Each model is briefly defined, and the logistic-type models have manipulations where you can look at the effect of various parameters like the growth rate, hunting/fishing rate, carrying capacity, etc.ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive The Three-Way Duel Problem This notebook looks at three common population models – the exponential growth model, logistic growth with a threshold, and logistic growth with a threshold together with hunting/fishing. It then moves on to the much more complicated example of modeling a tennis game using a Markov chain with 4 parameters (the chance of faulting on the first and second serve and the chance of winning a point on the first and second serve) and uses it to look at questions about what kinds of practice are more effective.ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Population Models

MATHEMATICA 7 NOTEBOOK IN MATHEMATICA 10 HOW TO
This notebook briefly defines a Markov chain (a tool in probability to model a system which can move between various states) and uses the example of a coin-flipping game to illustrate the basic ideas and how to set up a Markov chain in Mathematica. This notebook uses Mathematica’s QueueProcess command to look at the following question: If on average 8 people come in for help per hour, from the point of view of wait and service times is it better to have 1 representative who can help an average of 10 people per hour or 2 representatives who can help 5 people per hour? It also takes an example (based one in the Mathematica documentation) that looks at a network of queues (where people come to campus and look around, then get their parking permit, then get their course schedule).ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Modeling a Tennis Game as a Markov Chain Both types of hard drive arrays are discussed and Mathematica’s ReliabilityDistribution command is used to examine which type of array tends to last longer over time (given certain assumptions about the underlying hard drives).ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Queue Times This notebook looks at some basic reliability analysis (in this case for RAID 10 and RAID 5 arrays). This notebook shows an example of downloading weather information using Mathematica’s WeatherData command (in this case over a decade’s worth of daily average temperatures from the Durant area) and how to fit curves to it (both sinusoidal and triangular waves).ĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Reliability of Raid Arrays
MATHEMATICA 7 NOTEBOOK IN MATHEMATICA 10 PDF
Get a (non interactive) PDF of this notebookĭownload this or any of my other Applications notebooks from Google Drive Modeling the Weather

The problem is also generalized to include part-time workers with variable relative salaries and efficiencies. This notebook looks at a particular type of workforce scheduling where you know how many people are needed each day of the week and workers must work 5 days on followed by 2 days off.
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I will likely repost and update the links for earlier posts this summer. Important Note: Prior to 2016 our homepages would not allow me to post Mathematica notebooks directly on our site, so the majority of the notebook links will open a new window or tab with a Google Drive page. Mathematica Notebooks for Miscellaneous Applications Financial Aid & Costs Toggle Toggle Close.
