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arXiv:1307.2487hep-ex

Statistics for Searches at the LHC

Glen Cowan

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Abstract

These lectures describe several topics in statistical data analysis as used in High Energy Physics. They focus on areas most relevant to analyses at the LHC that search for new physical phenomena, including statistical tests for discovery and exclusion limits. Particular attention is payed to the treatment of systematic uncertainties through nuisance parameters.

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Lectures presented at the 69th Scottish Universities Summer School in Physics, St.~Andrews, August-September 2012
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hep-exHigh Energy Physics, Experiment physics.data-anData Analysis, Statistics and Probability

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