Statistics for physical sciences : an introduction
Material type: TextPublication details: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, ©2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:- 9780123877604
- 9789382291749
- 519.5 23 MAR-S
- QC174.8 .M35 2012
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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"--
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