MONASH UNIVERSITY FACULTY HANDBOOKS
Science Handbook 1996
Published by Monash University
Clayton, Victoria 3168, Australia
Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Experimental
design and data handling
Synopsis The scientific method, logic and science. Empiricism and
models. Experimental design, controlled and non-controlled experiments. Numbers
and scales, methods of counting, measurement and dimensional analysis.
Representation of data in digital and discrete forms. Interpretation of
results, transformations, normalisation, curve fitting. Statistics, parametric
and non-parametric statistics. Error, regression, orthogonal polynomials.
Analysis of variance, correlation and cluster analysis.
Prescribed text
- Lyons L A A practical guide to data analysis for physical science
students CUP, 1992
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