Earth & Planetary Sciences 326 - Data analysis for the earth & planetary sciences
http://www.earth.northwestern.edu/individ/seth/326
| Instructor: |
Seth Stein 311 Locy Hall, (847) 491-5265
seth AT earth.northwestern.edu
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Class Lectures: T, Th 2:00-3:30 PM, Locy 301
Class grade:
33%: Homework problems
33%: 2-page writeups of four department seminars, discussing the accuracy, precision,
consistancy, and adequacy of the data used
33%: Term project
Students may discuss homework and reports with each other, but are expected
to work and do their writeups independently.
Text: An Introduction to Error Analysis:
The Study of Uncertainties in Physical Measurements (Paperback)
by John R. Taylor, University Science Books, 1997
Class handouts
Class handouts (downloadable pdf)
Excel file of data for sloss room table
Fortran function for Gaussian
Fortran subroutine for linear least squares
Problem set 1 (pdf)
Problem set 2 (pdf)
Problem set 3 (pdf)
Problem set 4 (pdf)
Problem set 5 (pdf)
Problem set 6 (pdf)
Forsyth & Uyeda table for problem set 6 (pdf)
Handout on using GPS data in teaching data analysis (pdf)
Optional supplementary reading:
Statistical Treatment of Experimental Data: An
Introduction to Statistical Methods
by Hugh D. Young
Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical
Sciences (Paperback)
by Philip R. Bevington and D.Keith Robinson
Lady Luck: The Theory of Probability by Warren Weaver, Dover,
1963
Understanding Probability: Chance Rules in Everyday Life by Henk
Tijms, Cambridge, 2007
Chance: A Guide to Gambling, Love, the Stock Market
and Just About Everything Else
by Amir D. Aczel, Thunder Mountain, 2004
Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology by John C. Davis, Wiley, 2002
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim
Nicholas Taleb, Random House, 2007
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the
Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Random House, 2004
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital
Management by Roger Lowenstein, Random House, 2000
The Future of Everything: The Science of Prediction by David Orrell,
Thunder's Mouth, 2007
Extinction: Bad Genes or Bad Luck? by David M. Raup, Norton, 1991
Useless Arithmetic: Why Environmental
Scientists Can't Predict the Future
by Orrin H. Pilkey & Linda Pilkey-Jarvis, Columbia U. Press, 2007