A student's guide to data and error analysis [E-Book] / Herman J.C. Berendsen.
All students taking laboratory courses within the physical sciences and engineering will benefit from this book, whilst researchers will find it an invaluable reference. This concise, practical guide brings the reader up-to-speed on the proper handling and presentation of scientific data and its ina...
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Personal Name(s): | Berendsen, Herman J. C., author |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011
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Physical Description: |
1 online resource (xii, 225 pages) |
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englisch |
ISBN: |
9780521134927 9780511921247 9780521119405 |
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- 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.