Physics 771 Fall 2014
Recommended Texts

You need not purchase any of these for the mini-course. However, some could be valuable for your personal library.

• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, by P. R. Bevington and D. K. Robinson: This one is a classic, and I recommend it as a general reference. If you get one book on error analysis, get this one. Watch out for typos, though, even in the second edition.
• An Introduction to Error Analysis, by John R. Taylor: Another classic, at a somewhat more elementary level than Bevington & Robinson. This is a good one to go through if you feel you lack background.
• Statistics for Nuclear and Particle Physicists by Louis Lyons: Although many examples are from particle physics, most of the material is generic. This one has very lucid presentations of some topics, and a number of useful examples, but its coverage is not quite comprehensive enough for me to recommend as a basic text.
• Statistical Data Analysis by Glen Cowan: this one has a good chapter on maximum likelihood methods.
• Statistics by R. J. Barlow. I don't know this one that well, but it seems to be popular in some communities.
• I may post other useful pedagogical references as I run across them, so check back later.