Physics and Engineering of Radiation Detection

516 Chapter 8. Signal Processing 8.9.B NoiseinSpecificComponents.................. B.1 NoiseinAmplifiers....................... ...

8.9. Electronics Noise 517 whereAis a proportionality constant (recall that spectral power density for 1/f noise is proportional ...

518 Chapter 8. Signal Processing The signal to noise ratio for the system is then S/N = [ Vs,out Vn,out ] 2 = A^2 Vs,in^2 A^2 [( ...

8.9. Electronics Noise 519 8.9.C MeasuringSystemNoise..................... As mentioned earlier, the particular detector applica ...

520 Chapter 8. Signal Processing D.1 DetectorSignal......................... Enhancing the detector signal is one way of increas ...

8.9. Electronics Noise 521 Problems 1.A semiconductor detector having a total capacitance of 1pFis connected to a voltage sensit ...

522 Chapter 8. Signal Processing Bibliography [1] Bouquet, F.L., Radiation Effects on Electronics, Systems Co, 1994. [2] Bozic, ...

BIBLIOGRAPHY 523 [19] Motchenbacher, C.D., Connelly, J.A., Low-Noise Electronic System De- sign, John Wiley & Sons Inc., 199 ...

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525 Chapter 9 Essential Statistics for Data Analysis Statistics is perhaps the most powerful available technique for analyzing e ...

526 Chapter 9. Essential Statistics for Data Analysis 9.1 MeasuresofCentrality.......................... Whenever we talk aboutd ...

9.1. Measures of Centrality 527 wherewiis the weight or importance of each data point. We will see later that this weighting mea ...

528 Chapter 9. Essential Statistics for Data Analysis It is apparent that mean is the measure of central tendency that is most a ...

9.3. Probability 529 The subsetsA,Betc. of the sample spaceScan be interpreted in different ways. Two most commonly used interpr ...

530 Chapter 9. Essential Statistics for Data Analysis be written as P(x)=f(x;θ)dx. Heref(x, θ) is called theprobability density ...

9.3. Probability 531 then the expression for the expectation value becomes E(g(x)) = ∫∞ −∞ g(x)f(x)dx. (9.3.6) In this book, unl ...

532 Chapter 9. Essential Statistics for Data Analysis across situations where the data can not be represented by a distribution ...

9.3. Probability 533
Median:In the beginning of this chapter we introducedmedianas a measure of central tendency. Since we now ...

534 Chapter 9. Essential Statistics for Data Analysis If we now takeNmeasurements, the joint probabilities associated with a par ...

9.3. Probability 535 tell us anything about how the other values ofhare spread out. This spread, also known as the rms or root-m ...