Martin, B. R. <br/><br/>
Statistics for physical sciences :  an introduction / 
B. R. Martin 
 - Waltham, MA :  Academic Press,  2012 
 - x, 302 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index 
<br/><br/>Machine generated contents note: Preface, Acknowledgements, Statistics, Experiments, and Data, Probability, Probability Distributions: Basic Concepts Probability Distributions: Examples, Sampling and Estimation, Sampling Distributions associated with the Normal Distribution, Point Estimation I: Maximum Likelihood, Point Estimation II: Least-Squares Method, Point Estimation III: Other Methods, Confidence Intervals and Regions, Hypothesis Testing, Appendices, Summary of Distribution Properties, Miscellaneous Mathematics, Orthogonal Polynomials, Optimization of Functions of Several Variables, Statistical Tables, Solutions to Problems, Bibliography, Index 
<br/><br/> "Statistics in physical sciences is principally concerned with the analysis of numerical data, so in Chapter 1 there is a review of what is meant by an experiment, and how the data that it produces are displayed and characterized by a few simple numbers"-- 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780123877604 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Statistical physics<br/>Physical sciences--Statistical methods