Practical statistics
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https://doi.org/10.23730/CYRSP-2026-001.47Abstract
The emphasis in these lectures is very much on practical statistics, i.e. what you will be using as part of almost any data analysis procedure. The topics dealt with include a discussion of the Bayesian and frequentist approaches, a description of the statistical issues involved in searches for new physics, and explaining how covariance matrices help dealing with correlations.
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