Part I. Fundamentals: 1. The nature of data and analysis; 2. Probability theory; 3. Statistics; Part II. Fitting Curves to Data; 4. Interpolation; 5. Smoothed curve fitting; 6. Special curve fitting; Part III. Sequential Data Fundamentals: 7. Serial products; 8. Fourier series; 9. Fourier transform; 10. Fourier sampling theory; 11. Spectral analysis; 12. Cross spectral analysis; 13. Filtering and deconvolution; 14. Linear parametric models; 15. Empirical orthogonal function (EOF) analysis; A1. Overview of matrix algebra; A2. Uncertainty analysis; References; Index. sakriti opis