Louis Lyons

This book was useful in my course Statistical Physics, which I took as a physics major during my undergraduate career. It contains explanations of topics in statistics and data analysis. The example problems come from the realm of physics. The text covers two broad topics: experimental error and least squares fitting. After introducing the topics with examples, a complete worked example is provided. Appendices include important formulas, distributions, techniques (such as partial differentiation), and a table of random numbers.… (meer)