Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences A Comparative Approach with Mathematicar Support

Name: Bayesian Logical Data Analysis for the Physical Sciences A Comparative Approach with Mathematicar Support
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ISBN: 9780521150125

ISBN-10: 0521150124

ISBN-13: 9780521150125

Edition: 2010

Authors: Phil Gregory

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Book details

List price: $90.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/20/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 488
Size: 6.69" wide x 9.61" long x 1.10" tall
Weight: 1.694
Language: English

Phil Gregory is Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of British Columbia.



Preface


Acknowledgements



Role of probability theory in science



Probability theory as extended logic



The how-to of Bayesian inference



Assigning probabilities



Frequentist statistical inference



What is a statistic?



Frequentist hypothesis testing



Maximum entropy probabilities



Bayesian inference (Gaussian errors)



Linear model fitting (Gaussian errors)



Nonlinear model fitting



Markov Chain Monte Carlo



Bayesian spectral analysis



Bayesian inference (Poisson sampling)



Singular value decomposition



Discrete Fourier transforms



Difference in two samples



Poisson ON/OFF details



Multivariate Gaussian from maximum entropy


References


Index