1 INTRODUCTION

2 DATA SAMPLES

3 OVERVIEW OF BIAS CORRECTIONS & SIMULATION

4 FAKE SN IA LIGHT CURVES OVERLAID ON IMAGES

5 SOURCE MODEL  
5.1 SN Ia Light Curve Model  
5.2 Intrinsic Scatter  
5.3 SALT-II Global Model Parameters  
5.4 Luminosity Distance and Lensing Magnification  
5.5 Peculiar Velocity and Observed Redshift  
5.6 Galactic Extinction  
5.7 Volumetric Rate Model  

6 MODELING FLUX AND NOISE  
6.1 Observation Library  
6.2 Host Galaxy Model  
6.3 Converting True Magnitudes into Measured Fluxes & Uncertainties  
6.4 Determining The Flux-Uncertainty Scale   

7 TRIGGER MODEL  
7.1 DES-SN Trigger  
7.2 Low z Trigger  

8 COMPARING DATA & SIMULATIONS

9 DISTANCE MODULUS BIAS VS. REDSHIFT

10 CONCLUSION