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arXiv:1503.07622physics.data-an

Practical Statistics for the LHC

Kyle Cranmer

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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.

arXiv 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
Journal reference
CERN-2014-003, pp. 267 - 308
DOI
Subjects
physics.data-anData Analysis, Statistics and Probability hep-exHigh Energy Physics, Experiment

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    • Sure thing! In broad strokes, the most formal way (in our field's typically frequentist paradigm) to calculate confidence/significance is to build a robust statistical model for your entire experiment (including the random effect that various uncertainties, etc will have on the…

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