Text Books for 12.747

Main Texts:

• Statistics and Data Analysis in Geology, 3rd Ed. by J.C. Davis (J. Wiley) ISBN 0-471-08079-9 Despite the term "Geology" in the title, this book applies well to all of the geosciences.
• Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences, 3rd Ed. by P.R. Bevington and D.K. Robinson (McGraw-Hill) ISBN 0-07-911243-9 A reasonably priced paperback which describes many aspects of data analysis and regression techniques. Relatively elementary text.

Additional Texts:

• Numerical Recipes, 3rd Ed. by W.H. Press, S.A. Teukolksy, W.T. Vettering and B.P Flannery (Cambridge University Press) ISBN 0-521-43108. A good general reference text with sensible, intuitive (rather than rigorous) discussions about many aspects of numerical techniques.
• Applied Factor Analysis in the Natural Sciences by R. Reyment and K.G. Joreskog (Cambridge) ISBN 0-521-41242-0. Like the title says, a book on factor analysis (and PCA) for geosciences. You can get the MATLAB m-files for it on the Web.
• Practical Geostatistics by Isobel Clark (Elsevier) ISBN 0- 85334-843-X. This slim little book is an excellent introduction to the underlying priciples of Geostatistics, which we touch upon in lecture 5. Unfortunately this book is out-of-print now, but through Dr. Clark's good graces we make a PDF version of the 1979 edition available here (it's about 820KB in size). Keep in eye out for her new book, Practical Geostatistics 2000 which is in bookstores now.
• Data Analysis Methods in Physical Oceanography, 2nd Ed. by William J. Emery and Richard E. Thomson (Pergamon) ISBN 0-0803-1434-1. Although obviously directed toward physical oceanographers, this is an excellent textbook, particularly in its treatment of spectral analysis (which occupies approximately the final third of the book).
• Introduction to Applied Mathematics by G. Strang (Wellesley-Cambridge) ISBN 0-9614088-0-4 A thorough treatment of modern linear algebra. Not recommended for the mathematically challenged, but a good solid reference text with lots of physics examples.
• Mathematical Methods in the Physical Sciences, 2nd Ed. by M.L. Boas (J. Wiley) ISBN 0-471-04409-1 A good book for when vector calculus rears its head (and it always does) in your problems. This text also has a lot of good stuff about series, complex numbers, ODEs, etc. all of it with a strong bent towards solving physical problems.
• Fundamentals of Computational Fluid Dynamics by P.J. Roache (Hermosa) ISBN 0-913478-05-9 All you'd ever care to know about finite-difference techniques. The first 1/3 is an extremely useful discussion about accuracy/stability/efficacy issues, and has detailed analyses of various techniques. It also talks about numeric diffusion in great detail. (Hardback).
• Spectral Analysis and its Applications by G.M. Jenkins and D.G. Watts (Holden-Day) ISBN 0-8162-4464-2 A classic text in time series analysis and spectral analysis. No relation to one of the lecturers.

MatLab Texts:

• MATLAB Primer, 7th Ed. by T.A. Davis and K. Sigmon (CRC Press) ISBN 0-8493-1305-8 This text is really basic, on the level of the tutorial chapter in the MATLAB User's Guide.
• Mastering MATLAB 5 A Comprehensive Tutorial and Reference by D. Hanselman and B. Littlefield (Prentice Hall) ISBN: 0-1385-8366-8  A good tutorial and reference for MatLab, goes a little bit more in-depth than the MATLAB User's Guide which can be handy at times. Updated for the latest version (5) of MatLab. The m-files that go along with it are available on the WWW.
• Graphics and GUIs with MATLAB  by P. Marchand (CRC Press) ISBN 0-8493-9487-2 Goes into all the esoterica of graphics with MatLab including building your own GUIs. A set of m-files provided with the book walks you through the chapters demonstrating various graphic concepts and also provides a tool for building GUIs. There is a second edition slated for publication in February 1999, too late for this course.