a)What are the four possible ways to study a system?
b)What is performance? Give a short formal definition.
c)What are the two most common performance measures for an ICT system?
d)What is a factor (in the context of experiments)? Give an example of a factor with multiple levels (and identify what some of the levels might be).
e)What is the goal in the design of experiments?
f)What does it mean for events to be independent?
g)What is a heavy tailed distribution (i.e., what are its key properties or characteristics)? Give an example of a real-life event (related to ICT systems) that may be heavy tailed.