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The principles of experimental research /

The need to understand how to design and set up an investigative experiment is nearly universal to all students in engineering, applied technology and science, as well as many of the social sciences. Many schools offer courses in this fundamental skill and this book is meant to offer an easily acces...

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Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Srinagesh, K.
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/Butterworth-Heinemann, ©2006.
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Table des matières:
  • 1 Experimental Research in Science: Its Name and Nature
  • 2 The Importance of Definitions
  • 3 Aspects of Quantification
  • 4 The Purpose and Principles Involved in Experimenting
  • Part II: Planning the Experiments
  • 5 Defining the Problem for Experimental Research
  • 6 Stating the Problem as a Hypothesis
  • 7 Designing Experiments to Suit Problems
  • 8 Dealing with Factors
  • 9 Factors at More Than Two Levels
  • Part III: The Craft Part of Experimental Research
  • 10 Searching through Published Literature
  • 11 Building the Experimental Setup
  • Part IV: The Art of Reasoning in Scientific Research
  • 12 Logic and Scientific Research
  • 13 Inferential Logic for Experimental Research
  • 14 Use of Symbolic Logic
  • Part V: Probability and Statistics for Experimental Research
  • 15 Introduction to Probability and Statistics
  • 16 Randomization, Replication, and Sampling
  • 17 Further Significance of Samples
  • 18 Planning the Experiments in Statistical Terms
  • 19 Statistical Inference from Experimental Data.