The Statistical Eyeglasses

The Math Behind Scientific Knowledge
Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-1-64327-151-4
Verlag: IOP Concise Physics

Buch, Englisch, 98 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 183 mm x 260 mm, Gewicht: 396 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Milotti, Edoardo

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Angewandte Physik Statistische Physik, Dynamische Systeme
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Naturwissenschaften, Technik, Medizin
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 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

Über Autor(innen)

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.