For those who are new to the R language: Install R from
www.r-project.org, or find access to a computer with R already installed.
Find the Introduction to R
(by following the link to manuals on this site).
Familiarize yourself with the Introduction to
R, and type the commands in the sample session in Appendix A. Practice
using the help facilities, e.g. by trying
?ts
?lm
?acf
Other good resources for R help are classmates and the GSI (or, as a last
resort, the
professor).
Homework 1,
due 1/21
Problems: 1.2 and 1.6.
Note that the signal modulator in 1.2
means the function giving the amplitude of the oscillation. For a signal
s(t)=f(t)cos(omega*t), the modulator is f(t).
Reading: Sections 1.1 to 1.4 (p. 1 to p. 23)
Useful R commands: rnorm(), exp(), cos().