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Electron spectroscopy
N U C L E A R INSTRUMENTS AND
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B O O K REVIEWS Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics, W . T . EADIE, D. DRIJARD, F . E . JAMES, M. ROOS and B. SADOULET (NorthHolland Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1972) pp. 296, 61 figs., 22 tables, Dfl. 50.00 (ca. $15.75). This book addresses itself to "physicists (and experimenters in related sciences) in their task of extracting information from experimental d a t a ' . The authors, one statistician and four highenergy physicists, have written the book with the intention to meet the needs of an advanced course in statistics communicated in a way that the research physicist can understand. The content covers the topics of probability (chapters 2-4), information theory (chapter 5), decision theory (chapter 6), methods for parameter estimation (chapters 7-9), test of hypotheses (chapter 10) and goodness-of-fit tests (chapter 11). One can fully agree with the authors that there is a great need for a course of the present kind and also that a sufficient course would have to be very comprehensive. By necessity the
Electron Spectroscopy, D. A. SHIRLEY (North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1972) pp. 916, Dfl. 90.00. One year after the Euchem Electron Spectroscopy Conference in Uppsala a second international conference was held at Asilomar, California. With its 916 printed pages the proceedings of this conference bear witness to the rapidly increasing interest in the field of electron spectroscopy for atoms, molecules and solids. As pointed out by Dr. Hollander in his s u m m a r y talk there is hardly a better example of the exponential growth in h u m a n activity than the growth of this field of research. Its interdisciplinary character was manifested by the broad diversity of disciplines represented at the conference. The Proceedings contain 12 invited papers and 60 contributed papers under the following seven sections: 1. 11 lII. IV. V.
New Developments in Electron Spectroscopy. Cross Sections and Angular Distributions. Molecular Photoelectron Spectra. Valence Bands in Solids. Chemical Shifts in Core-Level Binding Energies.
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material is here presented in a compressed form and the reader should already be familiar with elementary statistics in order to fully appreciate the present more advanced course. The authors have made a good compromise between theoretical derivations and formulas on one hand and illustrative examples from physics on the other. In this connection one should commend the authors for avoiding the usual examples from gambling. Furthermore it is up to the reader to decide whether or not he wishes to join "the Bayesians" or "the Anti-Bayesians" with their different opinions about the role of the experimenter as a processor of information. The differences in points of view between the two schools are pointed out throughout the book. In finishing this review, 1 would like to congratulate the authors to a commendable initiative and the book is highly recommended to be read by researchers in physics and related sciences with previous training in elementary statistics. T. GROTH
VI. Multicomponent Lines. VII. Auger Spectroscopy and Varia. Although " N e w Developments" were announced only in the title of the first section there were plenty of new developments reported also in the six remaining sections: The detection of spinpolarized electron states in antiferromagnetic materials, the unveiling of polywater, the use of angular correlations as a diagnostic for molecular orbitals, the development of crystal monochrornated X-ray sources, the extension to transient atomic species, the advent of synchrotrons and storage rings as sources of excitant radiation, to mention a few. To the nuclear physicist it is perhaps amusing to learn that in the area of instrumentation electron spectroscopy has developed largely from nuclear physics. It is still borrowing tricks from the nuclear and high energy physicist and placing them in the hands of the molecular physicist, the solid state physicist, the chemist and others. The Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Electron Spectroscopy presents captivating reading and addresses itself to a greatly diversified circle of researchers. C. NORDLING
METHODS
106 ( 1 9 7 3 ) 4 1 1 ;
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NORTH-HOLLAND
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CO.
B O O K REVIEWS Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics, W . T . EADIE, D. DRIJARD, F . E . JAMES, M. ROOS and B. SADOULET (NorthHolland Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1972) pp. 296, 61 figs., 22 tables, Dfl. 50.00 (ca. $15.75). This book addresses itself to "physicists (and experimenters in related sciences) in their task of extracting information from experimental d a t a ' . The authors, one statistician and four highenergy physicists, have written the book with the intention to meet the needs of an advanced course in statistics communicated in a way that the research physicist can understand. The content covers the topics of probability (chapters 2-4), information theory (chapter 5), decision theory (chapter 6), methods for parameter estimation (chapters 7-9), test of hypotheses (chapter 10) and goodness-of-fit tests (chapter 11). One can fully agree with the authors that there is a great need for a course of the present kind and also that a sufficient course would have to be very comprehensive. By necessity the
Electron Spectroscopy, D. A. SHIRLEY (North-Holland Publ. Co., Amsterdam, 1972) pp. 916, Dfl. 90.00. One year after the Euchem Electron Spectroscopy Conference in Uppsala a second international conference was held at Asilomar, California. With its 916 printed pages the proceedings of this conference bear witness to the rapidly increasing interest in the field of electron spectroscopy for atoms, molecules and solids. As pointed out by Dr. Hollander in his s u m m a r y talk there is hardly a better example of the exponential growth in h u m a n activity than the growth of this field of research. Its interdisciplinary character was manifested by the broad diversity of disciplines represented at the conference. The Proceedings contain 12 invited papers and 60 contributed papers under the following seven sections: 1. 11 lII. IV. V.
New Developments in Electron Spectroscopy. Cross Sections and Angular Distributions. Molecular Photoelectron Spectra. Valence Bands in Solids. Chemical Shifts in Core-Level Binding Energies.
411
material is here presented in a compressed form and the reader should already be familiar with elementary statistics in order to fully appreciate the present more advanced course. The authors have made a good compromise between theoretical derivations and formulas on one hand and illustrative examples from physics on the other. In this connection one should commend the authors for avoiding the usual examples from gambling. Furthermore it is up to the reader to decide whether or not he wishes to join "the Bayesians" or "the Anti-Bayesians" with their different opinions about the role of the experimenter as a processor of information. The differences in points of view between the two schools are pointed out throughout the book. In finishing this review, 1 would like to congratulate the authors to a commendable initiative and the book is highly recommended to be read by researchers in physics and related sciences with previous training in elementary statistics. T. GROTH
VI. Multicomponent Lines. VII. Auger Spectroscopy and Varia. Although " N e w Developments" were announced only in the title of the first section there were plenty of new developments reported also in the six remaining sections: The detection of spinpolarized electron states in antiferromagnetic materials, the unveiling of polywater, the use of angular correlations as a diagnostic for molecular orbitals, the development of crystal monochrornated X-ray sources, the extension to transient atomic species, the advent of synchrotrons and storage rings as sources of excitant radiation, to mention a few. To the nuclear physicist it is perhaps amusing to learn that in the area of instrumentation electron spectroscopy has developed largely from nuclear physics. It is still borrowing tricks from the nuclear and high energy physicist and placing them in the hands of the molecular physicist, the solid state physicist, the chemist and others. The Proceedings of the Asilomar Conference on Electron Spectroscopy presents captivating reading and addresses itself to a greatly diversified circle of researchers. C. NORDLING