Hoody Hoo!

[telerib]

Chapters 1 - 5, less about three paragraphs of Chapter 5, are in my advisor's hands for editing. All that remains is Chapter 6: Conclusions and Future Work, and the edits. Dear me, the edits.

This is the first The Advisor has seen of the Results, you see, and my attempts to make some sense of the data. And it clearly makes sense. But I don't know statistics, so there's a distinct lack of "norm of blah with standard deviation of blahblah" or "one-tailed T-tests" (which sounds like a tropical bird to me) or any of those other things that tend to show up in dissertations to quantify results past "Looks good to me!"

I may be getting a crash course in statistics this week/end. We Shall See.

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My only book on stats is by Bevington: _Data_Reduction_And_Error_Analysis_for_the_Physical_Sciences_ It's a decent volume, insofar as I've looked at it, but I rarely use it. Error bars being what they are in plasma physics, we don't do much detailed error analysis: Astrophysicists used to be the least-precise variety of interpreters of physical data, but they've gotten much better data in the past few years and now plasma's at the bottom. Sigh. My dissertation was full of +/- 50% error bars.