Turner J.E., Downing D.J., Bogard J.S. Statistical methods in radiation physics

Weinheim: Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2012. – 452 pp.
Statistical Methods in Radiation Physics began as an effort to help clarify, for our students and colleagues, implications of the probabilistic nature of radioactive decay for measuring its observable consequences. Every radiological control technician knows that the uncertainty in the number of counts detected from a long-lived radioisotope is taken to be the square root of that number.But why is that so? And how is the corresponding uncertainty estimated for counts from a short-lived species, for which the count rate dies away even as the measurement is made?The Statistical Nature of Radiation, Emission, and Interaction.
Radioactive Decay.
Sample Space, Events, and Probability.
Probability Distributions and Transformations.
Discrete Distributions.
Continuous Distributions.
Parameter and Interval Estimation.
Propagation of Error.
Measuring Radioactivity.
Statistical Performance Measures.
Instrument Response.
Monte Carlo Methods and Applications in Dosimetry.
Dose–Response Relationships and Biological Modeling.
Regression Analysis.
Introduction to Bayesian Analysis.
Appendix.