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  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: certain uncertainty
    sub title: nature's random ways
  name:
    name part: Silverman, Mark P.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xvi, 617 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: "Based around a series of real-life scenarios, this engaging introduction to statistical reasoning will teach you how to apply powerful statistical, qualitative and probabilistic tools in a technical context. From analysis of electricity bills, baseball statistics, and stock market fluctuations, through to profound questions about physics of fermions and bosons, decaying nuclei, and climate change, each chapter introduces relevant physical, statistical and mathematical principles step-by-step in an engaging narrative style, helping to develop practical proficiency in the use of probability and statistical reasoning. With numerous illustrations making it easy to focus on the most important information, this insightful book is perfect for students and researchers of any discipline interested in the interwoven tapestry of probability, statistics, and physics"--
  table of contents: Machine generated contents note: 1. Tools of the trade; 2. The 'fundamental problem' of a practical physicist; 3. Mother of all randomness I: the random disintegration of matter; 4. Mother of all randomness II: the random creation of light; 5. A certain uncertainty; 6. Doing the numbers: nuclear physics and the stock market; 7. On target: uncertainties of projectile flight; 8. The guesses of groups; 9. The random flow of energy I: power to the people; 10. The random flow of energy II: warning from the weather underground; Index.
  note: Mark P. Silverman, G.A. Jarvis Professor of Physics, Trinity College, Connecticut.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Mathematical Physics
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Energy
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Mechanics / General
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE / Physics / General
  subject:
    topic: Mathematical physics
  subject:
    topic: Statistical physics
  classification: QC174.8 .S545 2014eb
  classification: 530.15/95
  classification: SCI040000
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Certain uncertainty
    name:
      name part: Silverman, Mark P., author.
    identifier: (DLC) 2014004090
    identifier: (OCoLC)870439231
  identifier: 9781316003954 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1316003957 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781139507370 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 1139507370 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9781107032811
  identifier: 1107032814
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 140630
    record change date: 20250816223301.9
    record identifier: in00003485968
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng