Statistics for Physical Sciences An Introduction

Statistics for Physical Sciences is an informal, relatively short, but systematic, guide to the more commonly used ideas and techniques in statistical analysis, as used in physical sciences, together with explanations of their origins. It steers a path between the extremes of a recipe of methods wit...

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Main Author: Martin, B. R. (Brian Robert) (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Amsterdam Academic Press 2012
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Table of Contents:
  • Statistics, experiments, and data
  • Probability
  • Probability distributions I : basic concepts
  • Probability distributions II : examples
  • Sampling and estimation
  • Sampling distributions associated with the normal distribution
  • Parameter estimation I : maximum likelihood and minimum variance
  • Parameter estimation II: least-squares and other methods
  • Interval estimation - Hypothesis testing I : parameters
  • Hypothesis testing II : other tests