Recommendations for a Statistics Textbook in Astrophysics Research

[eri]

I'm in my 4th+ year of grad school in physics, working in the field of astrophysics. I've never taken an actual statistics course, and I'm starting to see the need for one - at the moment, I get all my statistics knowledge from Numerical Recipes. I do a lot of traveling for my research, so I can't take a course on campus. Can anyone recommend a good statistics textbook? I mainly need to learn about statistical tests that can be done in data analysis and numerical models. I have some background, just not an actual course, so it doesn't have to be an undergrad-level book if a more advanced one would be more appropriate. Thanks for any recommendations.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

• Author: Mario F. Triola
• Title: Elementary Statistics
• Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321897218/?tag=pfamazon01-20
• Prerequisities:
• Contents:

[B]Table of Contents:[/B]
[LIST]
[*]  Introduction to Statistics
[*] Summarizing and Graphing Data
[*]  Statistics for Describing, Exploring, and Comparing Data
[*]  Probability
[*]  Discrete Probability Distributions
[*] Normal Probability Distributions
[*]  Estimates and Sample Sizes
[*]  Hypothesis Testing
[*]  Inferences from Two Samples
[*]  Correlation and Regression
[*]  Goodness-of-Fit and Contingency Tables
[*]  Analysis of Variance
[*]  Nonparametric Statistics
[*]  Statistical Process Control
[*] Projects, Procedures, Perspectives
[*] Appendices
[LIST]
[*] Tables 
[*] Data Sets 
[*] Bibliography of Books and Web Sites
[*]  Answers to odd-numbered section exercises, plus answers to all end-of-chapter Statistical Literacy and Critical Thinking exercises, chapter Quick Quizzes, Review Exercises, and Cumulative Review Exercises
[/LIST]
[*] Credits
[*] Index
[/LIST]

 

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[discoversci]

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[LincolnLamar]

Hello all,
I am finishing up my sophomore year as a physics major. I have taken several mathematics courses over the passed two years, and have made great grades, but I don't feel I have the mathematical background I should. I have taken college algebra, trig, calculus 1 through 3, and statistics. I have made great grades so far, A's in all math classes and A's and B's in my science classes. Not to down grade my university, I have never been required a textbook in any of my mathematics classes. I just finished calculus based physics 1 and realized that I need to study math more.
So, what I am asking for are some recommendations on a good statistics textbook; something with more of a science background.

Also,
I have a couple of calculus textbooks already, Swokowski's and Thomas's. I see most of you prefer Spivak. Is there enough of a difference between the two calculus texts that I already have to justify buying Spivak?