Frank Porter's Statistics Page
BOOK
Statistical Analysis Techniques in Particle Physics
Fits, Density Estimation and Supervised Learning
Wiley site (US)
(DE)
Ilya Narsky and Frank Porter
Wiley-VCH, Berlin, First edition, published November 2013
Ph 129 notes
Probability [pdf]
Simulation [pdf]
Bayesian and Frequentist Statistics [pdf]
Point Estimation [pdf]
Intervals [pdf]
Hypothesis Testing [pdf]
Density Estimation [pdf]
GENERAL
Statistics lectures at the Flecken-Zechlin ``School on Concepts of Modern Amplitude Analysis Techniques'', 18-26 September, 2013
BaBar Statistics Working Group
SLUO Statistics Lectures
Statistical Issues in Particle Physics -- A View from BaBar [Slides:PDF] [Paper: PDF] (Talk at PHYSTAT2003: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics, and Cosmology, 8-11 September, 2003, Stanford).
BaBar Analysis School Lectures
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES - Averaging
Averaging with theoretical uncertainties [pdf]
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES - Hypothesis tests
Significance of HEP Observations
- Paper (Intl. J. Mod. Phys. A) [pdf]
- Talk (charm2006) [pdf]
Checking Consistency between Repeated Analyses [ps][pdf]
The Simple Hypothesis Test [pdf]
Comparing histograms paper [pdf]
slides [pdf]
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES - Interval estimation
Interval Estimation Using the Likelihood Function [pdf][ps]
Correlations in systematic uncertainty evaluation
Nuisance parameters
Poisson Statistics with Backgrounds
Confidence intervals for the binomial distribution [pdf] Spreadsheet [xls]
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES - Parameter estimation
Scale Correlations in a Chi-square Fit [ps][pdf]
Correlation with a small subset [ps][pdf]
Low Statistics Likelihood Fits are Tricky
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