Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword to first edition
- Foreword to second edition
- Note on notation
- 1 Decision
- 2 Probability
- 3 Statistics and expectations
- 4 Correlation and association
- 5 Hypothesis testing
- 6 Data modelling and parameter estimation: basics
- 7 Data modelling and parameter estimation: advanced topics
- 8 Detection and surveys
- 9 Sequential data – 1D statistics
- 10 Statistics of large-scale structure
- 11 Epilogue: statistics and our Universe
- Appendix A The literature
- Appendix B Statistical tables
- References
- Index
6 - Data modelling and parameter estimation: basics
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Dedication
- Foreword to first edition
- Foreword to second edition
- Note on notation
- 1 Decision
- 2 Probability
- 3 Statistics and expectations
- 4 Correlation and association
- 5 Hypothesis testing
- 6 Data modelling and parameter estimation: basics
- 7 Data modelling and parameter estimation: advanced topics
- 8 Detection and surveys
- 9 Sequential data – 1D statistics
- 10 Statistics of large-scale structure
- 11 Epilogue: statistics and our Universe
- Appendix A The literature
- Appendix B Statistical tables
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Practical Statistics for Astronomers , pp. 126 - 150Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012