Statistics for physical science
Subtitle: an introduction
By: B.R. Martin
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Academic Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Amsterdam; Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780123877604
Subjects: Statistical methods; Physical sciences; Statistical physics
Description: "Statistics in physical science 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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 .