Publications and Research
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-2013
Abstract
Most mathematicians are aware of the importance of statistics in biological sciences, business, and economics, but are less aware that statistics is used every day in experimental physics. This paper gives three interesting examples of how statistics plays a vital role in physics. These examples use the basic statistical tools of residuals analysis and goodness of fit.
Comments
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Mathematics Magazine in 2013, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.4169/math.mag.86.2.120