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Probability and Statistics in Experimental Physics /

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Intended for advanced undergraduates and graduate students, this book is a practical guide to the use of probability and statistics in experimental physics. The emphasis is on applications and understanding, on theorems and techniques actually used in research. The text is not a comprehensive text i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roe, Byron P.
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2001.
Edition:Second edition.
Series:Undergraduate texts in contemporary physics.
Subjects:
Physics.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Basic Probability Concepts
  • Some Initial Definitions
  • Some Results of Specific Distributions
  • Discrete Distributions and Combinatorials
  • Specific Discrete Distributions
  • The Normal (or Gaussian) Distribution and Other Continuous Distributions
  • Generating Functions and Characteristic Functions
  • The Monte Carlo Method: Computer Simulation of Experiments
  • Queueing Theory and Other Probability Questions
  • Two Dimensional and Multi-Dimensional Distributions
  • The Central Limit Theorem
  • Inverse Probability; Confidence Limits
  • Methods for Estimating Parameters. Least Squares and Maximum Likelihood
  • Curve Fitting
  • Bartlett S Function; Estimating Likelihood Ratios Needed for an Experiment
  • Interpolating Functions and Unfolding Problems
  • Fitting Data with Correlations and Constraints
  • Beyond Maximum Likelihood and Least Squares; Robust Methods
  • References.