Practical Statistics for Particle Physicists
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2016-08-11 v1
Abstract
These lectures introduce the basic ideas and practices of statistical analysis for particle physicists, using a real-world example to illustrate how the abstractions on which statistics is based are translated into practical application.
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@article{arxiv.1608.03201,
title = {Practical Statistics for Particle Physicists},
author = {Harrison B. Prosper},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1608.03201},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
28 pages, contribution to the 2013 European School of High-Energy Physics, Paradfurdo, Hungary, 5-18 Jun 2013. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1504.00945