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Treatise on statistical analysis of data geared toward students in the advanced physics lab. Includes instructions on using Excel for linear and nonlinear regression and the "delta chi-square equals 1 rule" for finding uncertainties for nonlinear regression.

http://www.phys.ufl.edu/courses/phy4803L/statistics/statmain.pdf

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
General Physics - Measurement/Units = Error Mathematical Tools - Non-linear Equations - Numerical Analysis - Probability - Statistics Other Sciences - Computer Science - Mathematics	- Upper Undergraduate - Graduate/Professional	- Instructional Material = Tutorial - Reference Material = Report

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Access Rights:: Free access
License:: This material is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license.
Keywords:: chi-square, linear regression, nonlinear regression, random error, statistics, student-T, systematic error, uncertainties
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 28, 2009 by Robert DeSerio
Record Updated:: October 15, 2012 by Robert DeSerio
Last Update when Cataloged:: October 15, 2012

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