Statistics School 2012

2 Apr 2012, 08:00 → 5 Apr 2012, 18:00 Europe/Berlin

Building 1b, SR 4 (DESY Hamburg)

Frank Ellinghaus (University of Mainz), Gero Flucke (DESY), Olaf Behnke (DESY), Thomas Schoerner-Sadenius (DESY)

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

DESY Map DESY_Map.pdf

Poster 2012-04-Statistics-School_JPG_klein.jpg

Monday 2 April

1 Registration

2 Welcome

Speaker: Dr Gero Flucke (DESY)

Slides welcome_2012.pdf

3 Lecture: Parameter Estimation I

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.1.basic.pdf

15:10 Coffee Break

4 Lecture: Parameter estimation II

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.2.point.pdf

16:30 Coffee Break

5 Data Unfolding

Speaker: Prof. Volker Blobel (Uni HH)

Slides TalkVB201204.pdf

6 Virtual Machine Setup

Optional for those who have questions concerning the virtual machine setup.

Speaker: Dr Gero Flucke (DESY)

19:30 Workshop Welcome Dinner

Tuesday 3 April

7 Lecture: Parameter Estimation III

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.3.interval.pdf

10:15 Coffee Break

8 Lecture: Parameter Estimation IV

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.4.hypo.pdf james.5.gof.pdf

12:15 Lunch

9 Lecture: Systematic Uncertainties

Speaker: Dr Frank Ellinghaus (University of Mainz)

Slides Ellinghaus_Systematic_Uncertainties_apr2012.pdf

15:00 Coffee Break

10 Lecture: Limits

Speaker: Stefan Schmitt (DESY)

Slides LimitStatSchool2012.pdf

17:00 Coffee Break

11 Special Highlight Lecture: Introduction to Finance Risk Management

Speaker: Thorsten Oest (d-fine)

Slides d-fineFinancialRiskManagement.pdf

Wednesday 4 April

12 Lecture: Parameter Estimation V

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.6.decision.pdf

10:15 Coffee Break

13 Lecture: Parameter Estimation VI

Speaker: Dr Frederick James (CERN)

Slides james.7.applications.pdf

11:45 Lunch

14 Tutorial: RooFit I

Speakers: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN), Sven Kreiss (NYU)

Slides

• Exercises.tar
• RooFit_Exercises.pdf
• RooFit_introduction.pdf
• RooStatsTutorial_120323.pdf

15:30 Coffee Break

15 Tutorial: RooFit II

Speakers: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN), Sven Kreiss (NYU)

Slides RooStats_exercises_1.pdf

Thursday 5 April

16 Tutorial: RooStats I

Speakers: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN), Sven Kreiss (NYU)

Slides RooStatsTutorial_hypoTest.pdf

10:45 Coffee Break

17 Tutorial: RooStats II

Speakers: Dr Lorenzo Moneta (CERN), Sven Kreiss (NYU)

Slides RooStatsTutorial_histFactory.pdf RooStatsTutorials_Part4.pdf

18 Lecture: Current Higgs Limits

Speaker: Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute of Science)

Slides Terascale_Hamburg_2012.pdf

19 Closing words