Chi-Squared Data Analysis and Model Testing for Beginners

Recent groundbreaking discoveries in physics have relied on chi-squared analysis and model testing. This is the first book to make this data analysis method accessible to students in introductory physics lab courses and others who need to learn this method, such as beginning researchers in astrophysics and beginners in data science.

Carey Witkov, Former Preceptor in Physics, Harvard University, Massachusetts. Keith Zengel, Preceptor in Physics, Harvard University, Massachusetts

Carey Witkov, PhD, is a former preceptor in physics at Harvard University with over 40 years of undergraduate physics teaching experience. He taught Harvard University's innovative Principles of Scientific Inquiry (PSI) introductory physics lab courses within which freshman and sophomore students learned chi-squared analysis and model testing. His favorite physics lab experiments are those that involve simple equipment but sophisticated analysis.

Keith Zengel received his PhD in experimental particle physics from Brandeis University in 2015. He worked on the ATLAS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, searching for supersymmetric and exotic particles and writing software for the endcap muon spectrometer. Since then he has worked as a Preceptor in Physics at Harvard University. His current research interests are introductory and intermediate classical mechanics, electrodynamics, and data analysis.