Terascale Statistics School 2018

19 Feb 2018, 14:00 → 23 Feb 2018, 14:00 Europe/Berlin

SR 4a/b (DESY Hamburg)

Lectures on statistics in high-energy physics:

 

- Basic concepts: Ivo van Vulpen and Glen Cowan
- RooStats and RooFit: Wouter Verkerke
- Propagation of systematics & morphing: Lydia Brenner
- Bayesian inference: Kevin Kroeninger

Practical tutorials including exercises with RooStats and RooFit.

It is expected that you can bring your own laptop for the excercises. 

The school fee is 50 Euro.

Please register until 11 February 2018.
 

MapOttensen map-altona.pdf

ShopsOutgoing goingoutHH.pdf

Monday, 19 February

1 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Isabell-A. Melzer-Pellmann (DESY)

Slides Welcome_Statistics2018.df.pdf

2 Introduction

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

Slides cowan_desy_2018_1.pdf

15:40 Coffee break

3 Computing set up

Speaker: Dr Yves Kemp (DESY)

Slides NAF-statistics-2018.pdf

4 Parameter Estimation

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

Tuesday, 20 February

5 Parameter estimation

Speakers: Prof. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

Slides cowan_desy_2018_2.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

6 Statistical tests

Speakers: Prof. Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway, University of London), Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

12:50 Lunch break

7 Tutorial

Speaker: Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

notes DesyCode2018.tgz

Paper Desy_Exercises.pdf

Slides 2018_01_20_Statisticsschool_DESY_IvovanVulpen.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

8 Tutorial

Speaker: Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

Wednesday, 21 February

9 Handeling Systematics

Speaker: Dr Lydia Brenner (DESY)

Slides Propagation_of_systematics.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

10 Tutorial

Speaker: Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

12:50 Lunch break

11 Tutorial

Speaker: Ivo van Vulpen (NIKHEF)

15:30 Coffee break

12 Look elsewhere effect +limit setting

Speaker: Dr Lydia Brenner (DESY)

Slides Look_elsewhere_effect.pdf

13 Tutorial

19:00 Workshop Dinner

Thursday, 22 February

14 Roofit and Roostats

Speaker: Wouter Verkerke

Slides wouter_lecture1.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

15 Tutorial (Roofit and Roostats)

Speakers: Dr Lydia Brenner (DESY), Wouter Verkerke

Slides wouter_handson1_macros.tar wouter_handson1.pdf

12:50 Lunch break

16 Roofit, Roostats and Morphing

Speakers: Dr Lydia Brenner (DESY), Wouter Verkerke

Slides Morphing.pdf wouter_lecture2.pdf

15:30 Coffee break

17 Tutorial (Roofit and Roostats)

Speakers: Dr Lydia Brenner (DESY), Wouter Verkerke

Slides wouter_handson2.pdf wouter_handson2.tar

Friday, 23 February

18 Bayesian inference

Speaker: Prof. Kevin Kröninger (TU Dortmund)

Slides Bayes_DESY.pdf

11:00 Coffee break

19 GOF- and Likelihood-Ratio tests for improved data modelling

Speaker: Dr Olaf Behnke (DESY)

Slides obehnke180223_nosol.pdf

20 Goodbye