Statistical Methods in Particle Physics WS 2011/2012
S. Masciocchi (lectures) / N. Berger (exercises)
Lectures every Monday 16:15 - 18:00, starting October 10th at neuer Hoersaal, Physikalisches Institut, Philosophenweg 12
Exercises every Monday 18:00 - 19:00, starting October 10th at CIP Pool, Albert-Ueberle-Strasse 3-5
Lectures
| 10.10.2011 | Lecture 1 | Introduction: Aims of the course, distributions and their properties, histograms |
| 17.10.2011 | Lecture 2 | Probability, probability density functions |
| 24.10.2011 | Lecture 3 | Fuctions of random variables, covariance, error propagation |
| 31.10.2011 | Lecture 4 | Common probability density functions |
| 7.11.2011 | Lecture 5 MC in the Mu3e experiment |
Monte Carlo Methods |
| 14.11.2011 | Lecture 6 | Object oriented programming |
| 21.11.2011 | Lecture 7 The ALICE experiment |
The ALICE experiment/Introduction to Likelihood and Hypothesys Tests (Material in lecture 8) |
| 28.11.2011 | Lecture 8 | Multivariate Methods: Fisher discriminant and Neural Networks |
| 5.12.2011 | Lecture 9 | Multivariate Methods: Kernel density estimators and decision trees; chi2 and significance |
| 12.12.2011 | Lecture 10 | Estimators and Maximum Likelihood | 9.1.2012 | Lecture 11 | Least squares |
| 16.1.2012 | Lecture 12 | Interval estimation, systematic errors, blind analysis |
| 23.1.2012 | Lecture 13 | Wrap-up and discussion |
Exercises
The exercises will be held on the CIP pool computers and involve writing scripts and programs in C++ using the root data analysis framework, putting to work the concepts teached in the lecture. For help and documentation with the tools, see here.| 10.10.2011 | Root tutorial (Exercise 0) Exercise 1 |
Introduction to the root framework, histograms |
| 17.10.2011 | Exercise 2 | Random number generators, MC integration |
| 24.10.2011 | Exercise 3 | Probability density functions |
| 31.10.2011 | Exercise 4 | A simple tracking detector |
| 7.11.2011 | Exercise 5 | Error propagation and particle identification |
| 14.11.2011 | Exercise 6 Materials: Base class header file Base class implementation Main program template Makefile template |
OO programming - a simple game |
| 21.11.2011 | Exercise 7 | Signal and Background |
| 28.11.2011 | Exercise 8 Tree A Tree B |
Cut based analysis |
| 5.12.2011 | Exercise 9 Signal only tree Background only tree |
Multivariate Methods/TMVA |
| 12.12.2011 | Exercise 10 | Likelihood and chi2 fits |
| 9.1.2012 | Exercise 11 CL_s Paper |
Extended likelihood, limits |
| 16.1.2012 | Exercise 12 Materials: pi0.root no_pi0.root |
A small analysis |
