mikejbrown/error-analysis

These are pedagogical error analysis notes written for 1st/2nd year physics undergraduate students as a response to feedback from students that there was not sufficient coverage of these ideas in their coursework. The notes contain Basic materials, roughly commensurate with what a typical undergraduate physics major requires (basic concepts, error estimation in measurement and from graphs, and linear error propagation), and Advanced Topics for keen students wishing to learn about probability theory, the two major schools of statistics (Bayesian and frequentist) and Monte Carlo techniques for non-linear error propagation. A list of materials for further reading and a summary “cheat sheet” are also provided at the end.