Statistics and Discoveries at the LHC (3/4)
Abstract
The lectures will give an introduction to statistics as applied in particle physics and will provide all the necessary basics for data analysis at the LHC. Special emphasis will be placed on the the problems and questions that arise when searching for new phenomena, including p-values, discovery significance, limit setting procedures, treatment of small signals in the presence of large backgrounds. Specific issues that will be addressed include the advantages and drawbacks of different statistical test procedures (cut-based, likelihood-ratio, etc.), the look-elsewhere effect and treatment of systematic uncertainties.
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- OSTI Identifier:
- 1026295
- Resource Type:
- Multimedia
- Country of Publication:
- CERN
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 72 PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS; 97 MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTING; PARTICLE PHYSICS; HIGGS; STATISTICS; DATA ANALYSIS; LHC; ASIMOV DATA SET
Citation Formats
Cowan, Glen. Statistics and Discoveries at the LHC (3/4). CERN: N. p., 2010.
Web.
Cowan, Glen. Statistics and Discoveries at the LHC (3/4). CERN.
Cowan, Glen. Mon .
"Statistics and Discoveries at the LHC (3/4)". CERN. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1026295.
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year = {Mon Jun 14 00:00:00 EDT 2010},
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