Statistics and machine learning for high-energy physics
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https://doi.org/10.23730/CYRSP-2025-002.151Abstract
These lectures introduce some of the main ideas of frequentist and Bayesian statistics as well as supervised machine learning with a focus on the probabilistic interpretation of the latter. The ideas are illustrated using simple examples from particle physics.
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