Student's Guide to Data and Error Analysis

Name: Student's Guide to Data and Error Analysis
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ISBN: 9780521134927

ISBN-10: 0521134927

ISBN-13: 9780521134927

Edition: 2011

Authors: Herman J. C. Berendsen

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This is a concise, practical guide in statistical methods for experimental data handling; ideal for course use and a handy reference for researchers.

Book details

Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/7/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 238
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English

Herman J. C. Berendsen is Emeritus Professor of Physical Chemistry at the University of Groningen. His research focuses on biomolecular modeling and computer simulations of complex systems. He has taught hierarchical modeling worldwide and is highly regarded in this field.




Data and Error Analysis:



Introduction



The presentation of physical quantities with their inaccuracies



Errors: classification and propagation



Probability distributions



Processing of experimental data



Graphical handling of data with errors



Fitting functions to data



Back to Bayes: knowledge as a probability distribution Answers to exercises



Appendices



Combining uncertainties



Systematic deviations due to random errors



Characteristic function



From binomial to normal distributions



Central limit theorem



Estimation of the varience



Standard deviation of the mean



Weight factors when variances are not equal



Least squares fitting



Python codes



Scientific data: Chi-squared distribution F-distribution


Normal distribution


Physical constants


Probability distributions


Student's t-distribution


Units