Bayesian Inference Data Evaluation and Decisions /

• Main Author: Harney, Hanns Ludwig (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 2nd ed. 2016.
• Subjects: Physics.; Computer mathematics.; Probabilities.; Nuclear physics.; Medical physics.; Radiation.; Statistics.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Particle and Nuclear Physics.; Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes.; Medical and Radiation Physics.; Computational Mathematics and Numerical Analysis.

This new edition offers a comprehensive introduction to the analysis of data using Bayes rule. It generalizes Gaussian error intervals to situations in which the data follow distributions other than Gaussian. This is particularly useful when the observed parameter is barely above the background or t...