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 enough that one needn’t look elsewhere if they truly care about applying statistical methods to their own works.


Furthermore, there are numerous detailed examples through the book, which in opposition to other texts, are easy to follow and most importantly instructive. In addition, the end of chapter problems comes with a select number of solutions at the end of book.


Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences is a nicely written self-contained guide and introduction to statistical methods applicable to the everyday experimental scientist, which for a reader with a basic grip on multivariate calculus, becomes a pleasurable self-paced exploration into statistics.


Probability and Statistics for Physical Sciences 
2nd Edition
By Brian Martin and Mark Hurwitz
ISBN: 9780443189692

 


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