Practical Statistics for the LHC
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2015-03-27 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
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.
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@article{arxiv.1503.07622,
title = {Practical Statistics for the LHC},
author = {Kyle Cranmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1503.07622},
year = {2015}
}
Comments
presented at the 2011 European School of High-Energy Physics, Cheile Gradistei, Romania, 7-20 September 2011 I expect to release updated versions of this document in the future