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Statistical Data Analysis

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
1998
ISBN
0198501560, 9780198501565
LCC
QA276 .C658 1998
Open Library ID
OL354805M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3950336 bytes)
Series
Oxford Science Publications
Pages
216\210
Time added
2011-04-05 09:53:27

Description

This book is a guide to the practical application of statistics to data analysis in the physical sciences. It is primarily addressed at students and professionals who need to draw quantitative conclusions from experimental data. Although most of the examples are taken from particle physics, the material is presented in a sufficiently general way as to be useful to people from most branches of the physical sciences. The first part of the book describes the basic tools of data analysis: concepts of probability and random variables, Monte Carlo techniques, statistical tests, and methods of parameter estimation. The last three chapters then develop more advanced statistical ideas, focusing on interval estimation, characteristic functions, and correcting distributions for the effects of measurement errors (unfolding).

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