Statistics for physical sciences :

Martin, B. R.

Statistics for physical sciences : an introduction B.R. Martin. - 1st ed. - Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2012. - x, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.

Machine generated contents note: Preface, Acknowledgements, Statistics, Experiments, and Data, Probability, Probability Distributions: Basic Concepts Probability Distributions: Examples, Sampling and Estimation, Sampling Distributions associated with the Normal Distribution, Point Estimation I: Maximum Likelihood, Point Estimation II: Least-Squares Method, Point Estimation III: Other Methods, Confidence Intervals and Regions, Hypothesis Testing, Appendices, Summary of Distribution Properties, Miscellaneous Mathematics, Orthogonal Polynomials, Optimization of Functions of Several Variables, Statistical Tables, Solutions to Problems, Bibliography, Index .

"Statistics in physical sciences is principally concerned with the analysis of numerical data, so in Chapter 1 there is a review of what is meant by an experiment, and how the data that it produces are displayed and characterized by a few simple numbers"--

9780123877604 9789382291749

2011045741


Statistical physics.
Physical sciences--Statistical methods.

QC174.8 / .M35 2012

519.5 / MAR-S
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