Data Analysis with Excel®

An Introduction for Physical Scientists

Les Kirkup (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

468 Seiten

2002
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-79737-5 (ISBN)

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An essential introduction to data analysis techniques using a powerful spreadsheet package. Basic principles are reinforced using fully worked problems, exercises and online support. Suitable for undergraduate students, it will also appeal to graduate students and researchers seeking an introduction to statistical techniques and the use of spreadsheets.

Data analysis is of central importance in the education of scientists. This book offers a compact and readable introduction to techniques relevant to physical science students. The material is thoroughly integrated with the popular and powerful spreadsheet package Excel by Microsoft. Excel features of most relevance to the analysis of experimental data in the physical sciences are dealt with in some detail. Fully worked problems reinforce basic principles. Underlying assumptions and range of applicability of techniques are discussed, though detailed derivations of basic equations are mostly avoided or confined to the appendices. Exercises and answers are included at the end of chapters. Further relevant topics are included in online support for the book. Data Analysis with Excel is suitable for undergraduate students in the physical sciences. It will also appeal to graduate students and researchers needing an introduction to statistical techniques and the use of spreadsheets in data analysis.

Les Kirkup is Associate Professor in the School of Physics and Advanced Materials, University of Technology, Sydney. A dedicated lecturer, many of his educational developments have focused on enhancing the laboratory experience of undergraduate students. In May 2011, he was awarded an Australian Learning and Teaching Council National Teaching Fellowship.

Preface; 1. Introduction to scientific data analysis; 2. Excel and data analysis; 3. Data distributions I; 4. Data distributions II; 5. Measurement, error and uncertainty; 6. Least squares I; 7. Least squares II; 8. Tests of significance; 9. Data analysis tools in Excel and the Analysis ToolPak; Appendices; References; Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	7.3.2002
Zusatzinfo	156 Tables, unspecified; 45 Halftones, unspecified; 78 Line drawings, unspecified
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	175 x 247 mm
Gewicht	908 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Office Programme ► Excel
	Naturwissenschaften ► Chemie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	0-521-79737-3 / 0521797373
ISBN-13	978-0-521-79737-5 / 9780521797375
Zustand	Neuware