Data Analysis: Statistical and Computational Methods for Scientists and Engineers

Data Analysis: Statistical and Computational Methods for Scientists and Engineers
ISBN-10
1461214467
ISBN-13
9781461214465
Series
Data Analysis
Category
Science
Pages
685
Language
English
Published
2012-12-06
Publisher
Springer Science & Business Media
Author
Siegmund Brandt

Description

Bridging the gap between statistical theory and physical experiment, this is a thorough introduction to the statistical methods used in the experimental physical sciences and to the numerical methods used to implement them. The treatment emphasises concise but rigorous mathematics but always retains its focus on applications. Readers are assumed to have a sound basic knowledge of differential and integral calculus and some knowledge of vectors and matrices. After an introduction to probability, random variables, computer generation of random numbers and important distributions, the book turns to statistical samples, the maximum likelihood method, and the testing of statistical hypotheses. The discussion concludes with several important statistical methods: least squares, analysis of variance, polynomial regression, and analysis of time series. Appendices provide the necessary methods of matrix algebra, combinatorics, and many sets of useful algorithms and formulae.

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