Description
Book Synopsis
All students taking laboratory courses within the physical sciences and engineering will benefit from this book. A concise, readable guide to data handling and error analysis, this book provides practical guidelines, computer programs (in Python), and recipes for the proper handling and presentation of scientific data and their inaccuracies.
Trade Review
"Overall, this would be a nice text or reference to accompany a short course in statistics for undergraduate science or engineering..also useful for researchers desiring a primer or review...Recommended." - CHOICE
Table of Contents
Part I. Data and Error Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. The presentation of physical quantities with their inaccuracies; 3. Errors: classification and propagation; 4. Probability distributions; 5. Processing of experimental data; 6. Graphical handling of data with errors; 7. Fitting functions to data; 8. Back to Bayes: knowledge as a probability distribution; Answers to exercises; Part II. Appendices: A1. Combining uncertainties; A2. Systematic deviations due to random errors; A3. Characteristic function; A4. From binomial to normal distributions; A5. Central limit theorem; A6. Estimation of the varience; A7. Standard deviation of the mean; A8. Weight factors when variances are not equal; A9. Least squares fitting; Part III. Python Codes; Part IV. Scientific Data: Chi-squared distribution; F-distribution; Normal distribution; Physical constants; Probability distributions; Student's t-distribution; Units.
