A Practical Guide to Data Analysis for Physical Science Students
"...a very useful book.  It is concise and lucid and designed to be taken into the laboratory and consulted there.  The book covers random and systematic errors, variance and Gaussian distributions, and least squares fitting for the determination of parameters.  The tone is accessible and user-friendly, but the ground is covered quite quickly, making this a valuable contribution to the education of physics undergraduates."   Lewis Ryder, Times Higher Education Supplement"The author...aims to demystify experimental error estimates and to `enable you to realise when your calculations have yielded ridiculous answers.' He succeeds in this accessible, easy to read, no-nonsense volume which I highly recommend as a companion to laboratory classes for undergraduates....The examples used throughout the book are practical and often very imaginative. These include experiments on electrical circuits, radioactive decay, and the measurement of speed by police radar."   Deborah Poirier, Physics in Canada