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                  QR factorization 130                 Search direction 214
                    Hessenberg matrix 132              Secant condition 224
                    Householder transformation (reflection) 129  Sequential Quadratic Programming (SQP)
                    iterative use for eigenvalue analysis 131  240
                    MATLAB qr 131                      Shape function 305
                  Quadrature (numerical integration) 162  Similarity transformation 118
                    dynamic simulation (see also Initial value  similar matrices 118
                       problems) 155                   Simplex optimization method 213
                    Gaussian (see also Quadrature) 163–166  Simulated annealing 361–362
                    Lobatto 166                          applied to parameter estimation 417–419
                    MATLAB dblquad 167                 Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) 141–148
                    MATLAB quad 163                      existence and uniqueness of linear systems 143
                    MATLAB quadl 166                     least-squares approximate solution of linear system
                    MATLAB trapz 140, 163                   145
                    MATLAB triplequad 167                left singular vectors 142
                    multidimensional integrals 167–169   MATLAB svd 146, 149
                    Monte Carlo integration 168          pseudo (generalized) matrix inverse 145
                    Newton-Cotes integration 162         right singular vectors 142
                     3/8 rule 162                        rank of matrix 142
                     Simpson’s rule 162                  singular values 141
                     Trapezoid rule 162; composite rule  Slack variables 239
                       162                             Span
                  Quantum mechanics 137–141              of set of vectors 29
                    use of eigenvalue analysis 138     Sparse matrix
                  Quasi-Steady State Approximation (QSSA)  allocation with MATLAB spalloc 52, 56
                       183                               banded 51
                                                         BVPs of high dimension 282–294
                  Random                                 defined 50
                    number generators                    fill-in during Gaussian elimination 54
                     MATLAB normrnd 334                  list of available functions with MATLAB sparfun
                     MATLAB rand 168, 327                   57
                     MATLAB randn 334                    storage format 51
                    variable 322                         viewing structure with MATLAB spy 53
                     conditional expectation 323       Spectral decomposition 122
                     covariance 336                    Stability
                     expectation 322                     dynamic 170
                     MATLAB mean 364                      eigenvalue analysis 171
                     MATLAB std 364                       manifolds 171
                     MATLAB var 364                      Example. stability of steady states of nonlinear
                     standard deviation 327                 dynamic system 172–175
                     variance 327                        numerical stability of ODE-IVP methods
                    vector                                A-stability 188
                     covariance matrix 337                absolute stability 187
                    walks 328–329                         error rejection 190
                  Rank                                    stiff stability 192
                    of matrix 44, 142                     time step restrictions 190–191
                  Regression (see Bayesian statistics)  Standard deviation 327
                  Residual function 304                  MATLAB std 364
                                                       Statistical mechanics
                  Scalars 3                              Boltzmann distribution 337
                    complex conjugate 3                  Example. Monte Carlo simulation of 2-D Ising
                    complex modulus 3                       lattice 356–357
                  Scattering theory 452–458              Field theory (see also Field theory) 358–360
                    lattice vectors 457                  Lennard-Jones interaction model 368
                    powder spectrum 458                  Maxwell velocity distribution 338
                    reciprocal lattice vectors 458       statistical field theory 358–360
                    Small Angle X-ray Scattering (SAXS) 458  Statistics (see Bayesian statistics)
                    structure factor 455               Steepest descent
                    Wide Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS)   direction 214
                       458                               optimization method 217
                  Schr¨odinger equation 138            Stiff dynamical systems 180
                  Schur decomposition 119                numerical simulation 192
                    MATLAB schur 119                   Stirling’s approximation 331
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