The statistical eyeglasses : the math behind scientific knowledge
- Responsibility
- Edoardo Milotti.
- Publication
- San Rafael [California] (40 Oak Drive, San Rafael, CA, 94903, USA) : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2018.
- Distribution
- Bristol [England] (Temple Circus, Temple Way, Bristol BS1 6HG, UK) : IOP Publishing, [2018]
- Physical description
- 1 volume (various pagings) : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm.
- Series
- IOP concise physics
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| Call number | Status |
|---|---|
| QC20 .M557 2018 |
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Creators/Contributors
- Author/Creator
- Milotti, Edoardo, author.
- Contributor
- Morgan & Claypool Publishers publisher.
- Institute of Physics (Great Britain), publisher.
Contents/Summary
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
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- 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.
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- Summary
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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.
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Bibliographic information
- Publication date
- 2018
- Title variation
- Math behind scientific knowledge.
- Series
- IOP concise physics, 2053-2571
- Note
- "Version: 20181101"--Title page verso.
- "A Morgan & Claypool publication as part of IOP Concise Physics"--Title page verso.
- Note
- Edoardo Milotti is Professor of Physics at the University of Trieste, Italy. After working mostly in experimental particle physics, he has also authored papers on noise processes in physics, and on the physics of cancer. His longtime research interests are in the direction of the analysis of experimental data and in the modeling of complex phenomena. He has published over 200 scientific papers in peer-reviewed scientific journals. He lives in Trieste, Italy, with his wife Alessandra.
- ISBN
- 9781643271514(hardback)
- 9781643271477 (paperback)
- 1643271474 (paperback)
- 9781643271507 (ebook)
- 9781643271484 (mobi)
- 1643271504 ebook
- 1643271482 mobi
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