TY - BOOK AU - Edwards,Robert V. TI - Processing random data: statistics for engineers and scientists SN - 9812568344 U1 - 620.0072 22 PY - 2006/// CY - New Jersey, London PB - World Scientific KW - Engineering KW - Science N1 - CONTENTS 1 Random variables 1.1 Basic Concepts 1.2 Expected values 1.3 Probability distribution Functions 1.4 The expected Value process etc 2 Measurements of Samples of Random Numbers 2.1 Variance of the measures mean 2.2 Estimate of the variance 2.3 Variance of the measured variance etc 3 Time series-Random variables that are functions of time 3.1 Averages 3.2 The Autocovariance and autocorrelation function 3.3 The power spectrum of a random signal 3.4 Processing time series by computer etc 4 Parameter Estimation 4.1 Motivation 4.2 Maximum likelihood estimation 4.3 Residuals 4.4 Parameter error estimates etc 5 Random Sampling 5.1 Basic Concepts of random sampling 5.2 Independent Sampling 5.3 Sample and hold Autocorrelation and spectrum 5.4 Non-Independent sampling 5.5 Photon detection ; Includes bibliographical references : p. 137 . _ Index : p. 139-140 ER -