| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 227 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
1. Curiosity and research: Course goals -- Kinds of questions -- Research methods for science -- Putting methods together -- 2. Overview of experimental analysis and design: Hypothesis-driven experiments -- Measuring values -- Improving experiments -- Safety and ethics -- 3. Statistics: Motivations for statistics -- Reducing many numbers to few -- Probability distributions -- Connecting data and probability distributions -- What happens to averages as N increases -- Central limit theorem -- Comparing many experimental measurements -- Data with many values of independent variable -- Other statistical tests -- 4. Mathematical models: Ingredients of mathematical modeling -- Estimation -- Linear regression -- Matching arbitrary functions to data -- Fourier transforms -- Deterministic modeling -- 5. Scientific information: Writing a proposal -- Writing scientific papers -- Scientific figures -- Giving scientific presentations -- Searching for scientific information -- Obtaining scientific articles -- Reading scientific papers |
| Summary |
An introduction to the design, analysis, and presentation of scientific projects, this is an essential textbook for undergraduate majors in science and mathematics. The book discusses experimental design, statistics, mathematical modelling, and preparing scientific papers and presentations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Research -- Methodology.
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Science projects.
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Research.
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Research Design
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Research
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research (function)
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SCIENCE -- Research & Methodology.
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Research
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Research -- Methodology
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Science projects
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Forschung.
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Methode.
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Statistik.
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Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780511932977 |
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0511932979 |
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9780511927782 |
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0511927789 |
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0511925247 |
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9780511925245 |
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9781139035118 |
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1139035118 |
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9786612978210 |
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661297821X |
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