• DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-19051-8
Corpus ID: 118681519

Everything you wanted to know about Data Analysis and Fitting but were afraid to ask

@article{Young2012EverythingYW,
  title={Everything you wanted to know about Data Analysis and Fitting but were afraid to ask},
  author={P. Young},
  journal={arXiv: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability},
  year={2012}
}

• P. Young
• Published 2012
• Computer Science, Physics
• arXiv: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

These notes discuss, in a style intended for physicists, how to average data and fit it to some functional form. I try to make clear what is being calculated, what assumptions are being made, and to give a derivation of results rather than just quote them. The aim is put a lot useful pedagogical material together in a convenient place. This manuscript is a substantial enlargement of lecture notes I prepared for the Bad Honnef School on "Efficient Algorithms in Computational Physics", September… Expand

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