Statistical Methods in Particle Physics WS 2013/2014
N. Berger (lectures)
Oleg Brandt (exercises)
Lectures every Monday 16:15 - 18:00, starting October 14th at INF 227 (KIP) / SR 2.404
Exercises every Monday 18:00 - 19:00, starting October 14th at CIP Pool, KIP / 1.401
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Lectures
| 14.10.2013 | Lecture 1 | Probability Theory | 21.10.2013 | Lecture 2 | Probability Density Functions |
| 28.10.2013 | Lecture 3 | PDFs (cont.), Error Propagation, Numbers on Computers |
| 4.11.2013 | Lecture 4 | Monte Carlo Methods |
| 11.11.2013 | Lecture 5 | Estimators |
| 18.11.2013 | Lecture 6 | Maximum Likelihood Method |
| 25.11.2013 | Lecture 7 | Minimizing |
| 2.12.2013 | Lecture 8 | Chi-squared estimators |
| 9.12.2013 | Lecture 9 | Statistical tests, systematic uncertainties, confidence intervals |
| 16.12.2013 | Lecture 10 | Confidence intervals, limits, Feldman-Cousins, CLs |
| 13.1.2014 | Lecture 11 | Multivariate methods |
| 20.1.2014 | Lecture 12 | Object Oriented Programming |
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.| 14.10.2013 | Root tutorial (Exercise 0) Exercise 1 |
Introduction to the root framework, histograms |
| 21.10.2013 | Exercise 2 | Pseudo random number generation |
| 28.10.2013 | Exercise 3 | Monte Carlo integration and generating distributions |
| 4.11.2013 | Exercise 4 | Central limit theorem, generating a muon beam |
| 11.11.2013 | Exercise 5 | Simulating a tracking detector |
| 18.11.2013 | Exercise 6 | Measuring the top quark mass with ML | 25.11.2013 | Exercise 7 Template code |
Simulating a PMT |
| 2.12.2013 | Exercise 8 ex_8_2_input.root ex_8_3_input.root |
Goodness of fit tests |
| 9.12.2013 | Exercise 9 ex_9_1_input.root |
Fits with systematics and correlations |
| 16.12.2013 | Exercise 10 |
Confidence limits and the CL_s method |
| 13.1.2014 | Exercise 11 ex_8_2_input.root |
Trees and Fishers |
| 20.1.2014 | Exercise 12 ex_12_bkg.root ex_12_sig.root ex_12_dat.root |
TMVA |
