Reduced online Terascale Statistics School 2020 - co-organised with PHYSTAT

Europe/Berlin
DESY Hamburg

DESY Hamburg

Description

ELectures and Discussion time on Statistics in High-Energy Physics

We will use the zoom room:

https://cern.zoom.us/j/98658928058?pwd=VjJyZVFVZTNYMjJpcVFiZmV4a3JoZz09

Basics  course, providing a round-trip through statistical methods and treatments used in data analyses in HEP

Roger Barlow, Olaf Behnke, Glen Cowan, Louis Lyons

  • Maximum Likelihood and Chi2 Parameter Estimation
  • Introduction to R
  • Hypothesis testing
  • Frequentist and Bayesian Probabilities
  • Systematics
  • Searches and Discoveries 

We have decided to have only ~two 45 minutes lectures a day + ample discussion time, because we feel that this is an appropriate format for online lectures.

The lectures and discussions will be chaired/moderated by one of the organisers. Please feel welcome to write during the lectures questions to the zoom chat box. For asking questions at the end of the lecture please use the 'raise hand' utility in zoom and wait until the chair invites you to ask the question(s).

Useful additional materials:

https://indico.desy.de/indico/event/4489/contribution/4/0/material/slides/0.pdf    Lecture from Volker Blobel on data combination including a dicussion how one can average two measurements with a common normalisation uncertainty using a constraint fit Ansatz, see p.36 ff                                  

      

 

 

 

 


 

Support
Participants
    • 10:15 11:00
      Introduction, Likelihood and Maximum Likelihood Estimation 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Louis Lyons (Imperial College London, and Particle Physics Oxford)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:15
      Discussion time 15m
    • 11:15 11:30
      Virtual Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:30 12:15
      Least Square Fits 45m
      Speaker: Dr Olaf Behnke (DESY)
    • 12:15 12:30
      Discussion time 15m
    • 14:30 15:30
      Introduction to R 1h
      Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (Huddersfield)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 10:15 11:00
      Hypothesis Testing 45m
      Speaker: Dr Olaf Behnke (DESY)
    • 11:00 11:15
      Discussion time 15m
    • 11:15 11:30
      Virtual Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:30 12:15
      Bayesian Probability, Credible Intervals and Priors 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Louis Lyons (Imperial College London, and Particle Physics Oxford)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 12:15 12:30
      Discussion time 15m
    • 10:15 11:00
      Frequentist Probability and Confidence Intervals 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Louis Lyons (Imperial College London, and Particle Physics Oxford)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:15
      Discussion time 15m
    • 11:15 11:30
      Virtual Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:30 12:15
      Systematic Errors: what they are and how to find them 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (Huddersfield)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 12:15 12:30
      Discussion time 15m
    • 10:15 11:00
      Systematic Errors: how to handle them 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (Huddersfield)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:15
      Discussion time 15m
    • 10:15 11:00
      Searches and Discoveries using counting and Poisson Statistics 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Roger Barlow (Huddersfield)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 11:00 11:15
      Discussion time 15m
    • 11:15 11:30
      Virtual Coffee Break 15m
    • 11:30 12:15
      Searches and Discoveries using Likelihoods 45m
      Speaker: Prof. Glen Cowan (RHUL)
      Recording
      Slides
    • 12:15 12:30
      Discussion time and end of school 15m