Statistical Methods in Particle Physics WS 2012/2013
S. Masciocchi (lectures) / N. Berger (exercises)
Lectures every Monday 16:15 - 18:00, starting October 15th at Seminar room 2.404, KIP, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227
Exercises every Monday 18:00 - 19:00, starting October 15th at CIP Pool, PI, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226
Please sign up at the electronic tutorial administration
Photos from the visit to GSI
Lectures
| 15.10.2012 | Lecture 1 | Introduction: Aims of the course, distributions and their properties, histograms | 22.10.2012 | Lecture 2 | Uncertainty, probability, Bayes' theorem, probability density functions |
| 29.10.2012 | Lecture 3 | Probability density functions and their properties |
| 5.11.2012 | Lecture 4 | Error propagation, Monte Carlo techniques |
| 12.11.2012 | Lecture 5 | Statistics for Alice and Mu3e |
| 19.11.2012 | Lecture 6 | Maximum Likelihood Estimator |
| 26.11.2012 | Lecture 7 | Object Oriented Programming |
| 3.12.2012 | Lecture 8 | Multivariate Analysis I |
| 10.12.2012 | Lecture 9 | Multivariate Analysis II |
| 17.12.2012 | Lecture 10 | Least Squares |
| 7.1.2013 | Lecture 11 | Confidence Intervals |
| 21.1.2013 | Lecture 12 | Tracking Methods |
Exercises
The exercises will be held on the CIP pool computers and involve writing scripts and programs in C++ using the root data analysis framework, putting to work the concepts teached in the lecture. For help and documentation with the tools, see here.| 15.10.2012 | Root tutorial (Exercise 0) Exercise 1 |
Introduction to the root framework, histograms | |
| 22.10.2012 | Exercise 2 | Pseudo-random number generators | |
| 29.10.2012 | Exercise 3 | Generating probability density functions | |
| 5.11.2012 | Exercise 4 | A tracking detector | |
| 12.11.2012 | Exercise 5 | A tracking detector with particle ID | |
| 19.11.2012 | Exercise 6 | Signal and Background | 26.11.2012 | Exercise 7 BasePlayer.h BasePlayer.cpp exercise7.cpp Makefile |
Ranking Code Collection |
OOP |
| 3.12.2012 | Exercise 8 tree_ex8.root |
Trees and Fishers | |
| 10.12.2012 | Exercise 9 tree_ex_9_signal.root tree_ex_9_bg.root tree_ex_9_data.root |
TMVA | |
| 17.12.2012 | Exercise 10 tree_ex10A.root tree_ex10B.root |
Bump hunting | |
| 7.1.2013 | Exercise 11 | Extendend Likelihood, Limits | |
| 21.1.2013 | Exercise 12 pi0.root no_pi0.root |
A simple analysis |
