Terascale Statistics School 2016

15 Feb 2016, 14:00 → 19 Feb 2016, 15:30 Europe/Berlin

SR 4a/b (DESY Hamburg)

Lectures on statistics in high-energy physics:

- Basic concepts: Louis Lyons
  • Point and interval estimation
  • Hypothesis tests
  • Limit estimation
- Multivariate analysis techniques: Eckhard von Toerne
- Systematic uncertainties: Rainer Wanke
- Prospects: Glen Cowan

Excercises:

- Roostats/Roofit tutorial: Lorenzo Moneta
- TMVA tutorial: Eckhard von Toerne
- Calculation of exclusion limits: Adrian Perieanu
- Application of Suport Vector Machines: Dirk Kruecker

The school fee is 50 Euro.
Please register until 08 February 2015.

Monday 15 February

1 Welcome

Computing NAF-statistics-2016.pdf

Welcome Welcome_Statistics2016.pdf

2 Basic introduction

Speaker: Louis Lyons

Slides 2_DESY__B_and_F.ppt

Slides Introduction 1_DESY_Introduction.ppt

15:40 Coffee break

3 Basic Introduction

Slides 3_DESY_chi2.ppt 4_DESY_likelihood.ppt

17:30 Reception

Tuesday 16 February

4 Basic introduction

Problems DESY_Practical_Statistics_Problems.pdf

Slides 5_DESY_Limits_Discovery.pptx

10:30 Coffee break

5 Multivariate analysis methods

Speakers: Eckhard von Toerne (Bonn), Dr Eckhard von Toerne (University of Bonn)

Slides TMVA2016.pdf

TMVA User's Guide TMVAUsersGuide.pdf

12:30 Lunch break

6 TMVA Tutorial

Speakers: Eckhard von Toerne (Bonn), Dr Eckhard von Toerne (University of Bonn)

Tutorial https://www.hep1.physik.uni-bonn.de/people/homepages/tmva/tmvatutorial

15:30 Coffee break

7 TMVA Tutorial

Speakers: Eckhard von Toerne (Bonn), Dr Eckhard von Toerne (University of Bonn)

Wednesday 17 February

8 Limit setting

Speaker: Dr Adrian Perieanu (CMS)

Slides Lecture_on_Statistics_partI.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

9 Limit setting tutorial

Speaker: Dr Adrian Perieanu (CMS)

Slides Lecture_on_Statistics_partII.pdf

12:20 Lunch break

10 Roofit tutorial

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

Slides RooFit_Tutorial_Desy2016.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

11 Roofit tutorial

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

ROOT Notebooks ROOTBooks_DesySchool2016.tar.gz

12 Dinner

Thursday 18 February

13 Roofit tutorial

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

Slides RooStats_Tutorial_Desy2016.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

14 Roofit tutorial

Speaker: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN)

12:30 Lunch break

15 Application of Suport Vector Machines

Speaker: Dr Dirk Kruecker (DESY)

Slides SVM_Introduction.pdf tutorial.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

16 Tutorial on application of Suport Vector Machines

Speakers: Dr Dirk Kruecker (DESY), Mr Mehmet Ozgur Sahin (DESY)

Friday 19 February

17 Systematic uncertainties

Speaker: Rainer Wanke (University of Mainz)

Slides DESY_Lecture_Feb16.pdf

10:30 Coffee break

18 Prospects

Speaker: Prof. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

Slides cowan_desy16.ppt

19 Goodbye