For the midterm, you are responsible for everything up to the end of
week 6, effectively Thursday February 13. ps 2 was handed out on
that Thursday, and because
	1. You will not have had a tutorial on ps2 before the midterm, and
	2. ps2 is concerned with some of the material in Chapter 10 that
	   we will not have covered by midterm time,
you are not responsible for ps2 in its entirety -- only for that material
that we have covered in lectures (see below).

"responsible for everything" means, basically, everything -- lectures,
problem set, tutorial review questions, CSIM syntax, ... Here is a 
breakdown of the chapters in Banks, Carson, and Nelson:

Chapter 1:
- a nice background chapter, with little technical material
- useful nonetheless to provide perspective (e.g., applications)
- the "little" technical material includes definitions and distinctions
  (e.g., discrete vs. continuous), which is examinable/testable
- our emphasis in this course is not all simulation but discrete-event
  simulation, and not all discrete-event simulation but waiting line/
  queueing phenomena, but at least appreciate what inventory systems
  look like, for example

Chapter 2:
- Section 2.1 and Example 2.1 have the most relevance to us
- the "look at other applications" comments made about Chapter 1 apply
  here as well

Chapter 3:
- the material here is a general look at how a simulation "runs", e.g.,
  the future event list
- all of the material is examinable

Chapter 4:
- none of this material is examinable for the midterm
- we may return to the OO stuff later in the course

Chapter 5:
- none of this material is examinable

Chapter 6:
- a solid, technical chapter; all the material is examinable
- don't worry about the short references to inventory systems and
  reliability in the applications

Chapter 7:
- none is this material is examinable for the midterm
- later, definitely

Chapter 8:
- all of this material is examinable, except for:
	- the gory details in Section 8.3.2 (combined LCGs)
	- Section 8.4.3 (tests for autocorrelation), 8.4.4 (gap test)

Chapter 9:
- all of this material is examinable, except for:
	- Section 9.2 (direct transformation for the normal distribution)

Chapter 10:
- for the midterm, the material up to the end of Section 10.2.2 inclusive 
  (selecting the family of distributions) is examinable

- none of the remaining chapters is examinable for the midterm
- note that additional lecture material has been presented, typically from
  Law and Kelton
- the blanket "this is examinable" statements above do not apply to the
  gory details of distributions such as the gamma, beta, and Weibull; if
  I want you to do something with these distributions, I will provide 
  sufficient information to get you started