Statistical Data Analysis References
The books listed on this page can all be found in the main library. To find them, simply search by ISBN on the main library search page. The main book to be referred to throughout this course is:
- Statistics: A Guide to the Use of Statistical Methods in the Physical Sciences (Manchester Physics Series) by Prof. R. Barlow. ISBN-10: 0471922951
You are expected to review the appropriate sections of Barlow's book that overlap with lecture material. There are numerous exercises in this book that you can follow in order to improve your understanding of the material presented in this course.
Additional references that are useful for developing a deeper understanding of
some of the specialist topic areas of this course are listed below:
- Statistical Data Analysis (Oxford science publications) by G. Cowan. ISBN-10: 0198501552
- Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics (World Scientific) by F. James. ISBN-10: 9812705279
- BaBar Analysis School Lectures on Multivariate Analysis, SLAC National Laboratory, Stanford, California, USA (2009) by A. Bevan
notes and examples are available on-line at http://pprc.qmul.ac.uk/~bevan/BAS/