Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences
The second edition of Probability and Statistics for Physical sciences remains a stalwart example of an introductory text for statistical methods. A real highlight of this text is that it is never boring, contrived or difficult. The authors should be praised for the high degree of pedagogical literacy in this textbook. From the beginning, the reader is treated to a gentle, but quantitative introduction to the basics of statistical measurement, before delving into a very nice introduction of probability. The book explores various topics from sampling, estimators and hypothesis testing. Fundamentally, a refreshing aspect of this text is that it empowers the reader (from even a first read) to confidently apply the techniques within to problems that the reader may find in real life (be it as a part of a lecture course or research problem). To this end, the book is economical when it comes to the gritty theory which professional statisticians revere but remains comprehensive ...