Practical Statistics for Particle Physicists

Authors

  • H.B. Prosper Florida State University, Department of Physics, Tallahassee, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.23730/CYRSP-2019-006.261

Keywords:

Statistics, lectures, data analysis method, statistical analysis, frequentist, Bayesian

Abstract

These lectures cover the basic ideas of frequentist and Bayesian analysis and introduce the mathematical underpinnings of supervised machine learning. In order to focus on the essentials, we illustrate the ideas using two simple examples from particle physics.

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Published

2019-11-14

Issue

Vol. 6 (2019): Proceedings of the 2018 European School of High-Energy Physics, Maratea, Italy, 20 June–3 July 2018

Section

Proceedings of the 2018 European School of High-Energy Physics, Maratea, Italy, 20 June–3 July 2018

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