The Statistical Eyeglasses : The Math Behind Scientific Knowledge (Iop Concise Physics)

Milotti, Edoardo

Morgan & Claypool Publishers（2018/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 98 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781643271477

Full Description

Science often deals with hard-to-see phenomena, and they only stand out and become real when viewed through the lens of complex statistical tools. This book is not a textbook about statistics applied to science - there are already many excellent books to choose from - rather, it tries to give an overview of the basic principles that physical scientists use to analyze their data and bring out the order of Nature from the fog of background noise.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Author biography
1. Models of Nature
2. Randomness
3. Bayesian and frequentist approaches to scientific inference
4. The principles of inferential statistics
5. Parametric inference
6. Prior distributions and equiprobable events in the physical sciences
7. Conclusionsthe statistical nature of scientific knowledge
Appendix AShort review of some basic concepts
Appendix BAbbreviations