Practical Modeling

Practical Modeling (BIOL 509, Fall 2003)

Montana State University, Bozeman

Last modified: 5 December 2003

This is the homepage for Biology 509, Fall 2003. This page will contain solutions to assignments and any other relevant information to the course. For any suggestions and questions regarding this homepage, please email Tomo Eguchi.

Course Information

• Instructors: Mark Taper and Tomo Eguchi
• Offices: Lewis Hall 303 (MT) and AJM Johnson 34 (TE)
• Phone: 994-2332 (MT) 994-1769 (TE)
• email: Mark Taper or Tomo Eguchi

• First assignment and solutions (problem 1 and problem 2)
• Second assignment
• Third assignment and a sample program.
• Lecture notes plus the fourth assignment and a binomial random number generator if you don't have a stats tool box. There are three parts to this assignment. Here is an example of a function. And the following are my solutions.
• Main program.
• A function that computes the probability for hypergeometric distribution.
• A function that simulate two-sample mark-recapture study.
• Lecture notes for golden section method
• A function for golden section method, which I downloaded from this site.
• Lecture notes for simplex method
• A test function for the simplex algorithm in Matlab, which needs this and this functions.

• First project: Scalar density dependent population growth models.
• Second Project: Compartment model. Here are your data in a text file.