SLUO Lectures on Statistics and Numerical Methods in HEP
August - September 2000
Go here to get streaming video of the lectures. Electronic copies of the written notes are available using the links below.
| Date | Lecture# | Title (PDF files linked) | Lecturer |
|---|---|---|---|
| August 4 | 1 | The Fundamentals; Point Estimation | Frank Porter, Caltech |
| August 7 | 2 | Maximum Likelihood, Least Squares and All That | FP |
| August 8 | 3 | What is a Confidence Interval? | FP |
| August 9 | 4 | Interval Estimation | FP |
| August 10 | 5 | Systematic Errors: their treatment and diagnosis | Roger Barlow, Manchester University |
| August 11 | 6 | The Bootstrap (or resampling) technique, or: Why you may not need 10**8 Monte Carlo events after all | RB |
| August 28 | 7 | Optimal Observables - and other neat fitting techniques | RB |
| August 29 | 8 | Signals, backgrounds, consistencies and probabilities | RB |
| August 30 | 9 | Maximum Entropy and related methods | RB |
| August 31 | 10 | Monte Carlo Methods | Frank Porter |
| September 1 | 11 - 12 | Pattern Recognition/Hough Transform | Norman Graf, SLAC |