EAS 309 Computer-Aided
Data Analysis in Geosciences
Spring 2009
Drs. M. Baldwin and W.-w. Tung
Link to this page: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~wwtung/EAS309

Tung and Yanai (2002)
Course Announcements:
Course Schedule (Last updated 01/20/09)
MATLAB codes and references:
The MATLAB webpage at Mathworks has very comprehensive documentations.
Try Getting Started if you have never used MATLAB before.
Statistics Glossary:
http://www.stats.gla.ac.uk/steps/glossary/
Recommended
References:
Bevington, P. R., 1969: Data reduction and error analysis for the physical sciences, McGraw-Hill, 336 pp.
Gilat, A., 2005: MATLAB—An Introduction with Applications, 2nd Edition, Wiley, 343pp.
Harman, T. L., et al., 1999: Advanced
Engineering Mathematics with MATLAB, 2nd ed., Cengage-Engineering, 784pp.
Middleton, G. V., 2000: Data Analysis in the Earth Sciences Using Matlab, Prentice Hall, 260 pp.
Matlab Programs:
Least Squares
Interpolation
ANOVA
CompareANOVAlouismuddata.m
Time Series
Convolution and correlation
exerciseV_2.m (including the creation of red noise)
Fourier Transform
Fourier Transform 2
MIDTERM
Acknowledgment: Many thanks to Prof. L. Braile who used to teach this course, for sharing his time-proven course materials and experiences.