Frank Ellinghaus(University of Mainz), Gero Flucke(DESY), Olaf Behnke(DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius(DESY)
Description
The school aims at providing education for the most relevant statistics related tasks, problems and methods for physics data analysis in the LHC era. It is mainly targeted at Graduate (Diploma/Master) and PhD students.
The program comprises lectures and tutorials on the following topics:
- Parameter estimation and fitting techniques
- Limit determination
- Data unfolding
- Systematic uncertainties and their evaluation
- Tutorial on RooFit/RooStats