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Zusatztext ? The book collates the huge amount of high quality statistical work that the author has contributed to the analysis of fission track data! often in collaboration with G. M. Laslett! over a 20-year period. It seems to me to provide an object lesson in sound statistical practice! grounding the work in appropriate simple physical models! extending models empirically and fitting them by maximum likelihood! always being fully immersed in! and addressing! the context to hand! and providing a deep understanding of the limitations of the laboratory and statistical techniques used. ? an essential handbook for all scientists who are involved with fission track analysis. ? this is an excellent book and I congratulate the author on his contributions to the topic.-M.C. Jones! Journal of the Royal Statistical Society! 2006! Volume 169! Issue 3The book is a good survey for scientists who have worked in the field. ?This would be an excellent introductory text for those wishing to enter this field! especially if they were also aware of the new statistical tools available.-E. Enns! Short Book Reviews of the ISII strongly recommend this book to its intended audience and would use it in a course on statistical consulting.-Thomas Burr! Los Alamos National Library! Technometrics! November 2008! Vol. 50! No. 4 Informationen zum Autor Galbraith! Rex F. Klappentext Statistical analyses of the numbers! lengths! and orientations of fission tracks etched in minerals yield dating and thermal history information valuable in geological applications! particularly in oil exploration. This book explores the statistical foundations and tools for the analysis and interpretation of fission track data--the first book to do so. The author sets out the theory of fission track dating and through numerical examples! presents methods for analyzing and interpreting fission track counts. Designed for broad accessibility! the book includes clear explanations of mathematical derivations and an appendix containing general notes on the relevant statistical concepts. Zusammenfassung Explores the line segment model and its consequences for the analysis and interpretation of data. This work derives the equations for fission track data and the theoretical probability distributions for the number, orientation, and length measurements of the tracks. It presents methods for analyzing and interpreting fission track counts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction. The Poisson Line Segment Model. Track Counts and Densities: Fission Track Dating. The Population Method. Discrete Mixtures of Ages. Continuous Mixtures of Ages. Probability Distributions of Lengths and Angles. Observational Features of Track Measurements. Further Developments. Appendix. ...
