Practical Statistics for the LHC

Authors

  • K. Cranmer Center for Cosmology and Particle Physics, Physics Department, New York University, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2015-001.247

Keywords:

Statistics, Large hadron collider, LHC.

Abstract

This document is a pedagogical introduction to statistics for particle physics. Emphasis is placed on the terminology, concepts, and methods being used at the Large Hadron Collider. The document addresses both the statistical tests applied to a model of the data and the modeling itself. I expect to release updated versions of this document in the future.

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Published

2015-12-11

Issue

Vol. 1 (2015): Proceedings of the 2013 CERN-Latin-American School of High-Energy Physics

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