Measurements and Their Uncertainties - A Practical Guide to Modern Error Analysis

This short guide to modern error analysis is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences. No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed. The necessary concepts are introduced where needed and illustrated graphically. The book emphasises the use of computers for error calculations and data fitting.

List of contents

1: Errors in the physical sciences; 2: Random errors in measurement; 3: Uncertainties as probabilities; 4: Error propagation; 5: Data visualisation and reduction; 6: Least-squares fitting of complex functions; 7: Computer minimisation and the error matrix; 8: Hypothesis testing - how good are our models; 9: Topics for further summary

About the author

Ifan Hughes took his BSc at Imperial College London, his DPhil at Oxford University, and undertook post-doctoral research at Oxford, Yale and Sussex. He has been at Durham University since 1999, where he is now a Senior Lecturer.

Thomas Hase has been an Associate Professor at Warwick University since 2007. Prior to that, he did his BSc, PhD and post-doctoral research at Durham University.

Summary

This short guide to modern error analysis is primarily intended to be used in undergraduate laboratories in the physical sciences. No prior knowledge of statistics is assumed. The necessary concepts are introduced where needed and illustrated graphically. The book emphasises the use of computers for error calculations and data fitting.

Additional text

This is a rather beautiful little book.

Product details

• Authors: Thomas Hase, Thomas P. A. Hase, Hase Thomas, Ifan Hughes, Ifan G. Hughes, Ifan/ Hase Hughes, Hughes Ifan
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 27.08.2010
• EAN: 9780199566327
• ISBN: 978-0-19-956632-7
• No. of pages: 160
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > Basic principles; SCIENCE / Physics / General, SCIENCE / Physics / Mathematical & Computational, MATHEMATICS / Functional Analysis, SCIENCE / Weights & Measures, Scientific standards, measurement etc, Mathematical physics, Calculus of variations, Statistical physics, Mensuration & Systems Of Measurement, Mathematical / Computational / Theoretical physics