Measurement and Detection of Radiation, Fourth Edition

Introduction to Radiation Measurements What Is Meant by Radiation?Statistical Nature of Radiation EmissionErrors and Accuracy and Precision of Measurements Types of Errors Nuclear InstrumentationErrors of Radiation CountingIntroductionDefinition of ProbabilityBasic Probability TheoremsProbability Distributions and Random VariablesLocation Indexes (Mode, Median, Mean)Dispersion Indexes, Variance, and Standard Deviation Covariance and CorrelationBinomial DistributionPoisson DistributionNormal (Gaussian) Distribution Lorentzian DistributionStandard, Probable, and Other ErrorsArithmetic Mean and I.