Statistics for physical sciences : an introduction / B.R. Martin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 302 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0123877601 : HRD
  • 9780123877604 (hardback);
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 519.5 23
LOC classification:
  • QC174.8 .M35 2012
Contents:
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.
Summary: "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"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 293-294) and index.

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"-- Provided by publisher.

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