TY  - BOOK
AU  - Martin,B.R.
TI  - Statistics for physical sciences: an introduction 
SN  - 0123877601 : HRD
AV  - QC174.8 .M35 2012
U1  - 519.5 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - Amsterdam, Boston
PB  - Academic Press
KW  - Statistical physics
KW  - Physical sciences
KW  - Statistical methods
N1  - 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -