Author | Berendsen, Herman J. C., author |
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Title | A student's guide to data and error analysis / Herman J.C. Berendsen |
Imprint | Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011 |
Connect to | https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921247 |
Descript | 1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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; A11. Least squares fitting -- Part III. Python codes -- Part IV. Scientific data