Ruprecht Karls Universität Heidelberg

Statistical Methods in Particle Physics WS 2012/2013

S. Masciocchi (lectures) / N. Berger (exercises)



Lectures every Monday 16:15 - 18:00, starting October 15th at Seminar room 2.404, KIP, Im Neuenheimer Feld 227

Exercises every Monday 18:00 - 19:00, starting October 15th at CIP Pool, PI, Im Neuenheimer Feld 226
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Photos from the visit to GSI

Lectures

15.10.2012 Lecture 1 Introduction: Aims of the course, distributions and their properties, histograms
22.10.2012 Lecture 2 Uncertainty, probability, Bayes' theorem, probability density functions
29.10.2012 Lecture 3 Probability density functions and their properties
5.11.2012 Lecture 4 Error propagation, Monte Carlo techniques
12.11.2012 Lecture 5 Statistics for Alice and Mu3e
19.11.2012 Lecture 6 Maximum Likelihood Estimator
26.11.2012 Lecture 7 Object Oriented Programming
3.12.2012 Lecture 8 Multivariate Analysis I
10.12.2012 Lecture 9 Multivariate Analysis II
17.12.2012 Lecture 10 Least Squares
7.1.2013 Lecture 11 Confidence Intervals
21.1.2013 Lecture 12 Tracking Methods

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.
15.10.2012 Root tutorial (Exercise 0)
Exercise 1
Introduction to the root framework, histograms
22.10.2012 Exercise 2 Pseudo-random number generators
29.10.2012 Exercise 3 Generating probability density functions
5.11.2012 Exercise 4
A tracking detector
12.11.2012 Exercise 5 A tracking detector with particle ID
19.11.2012 Exercise 6 Signal and Background
26.11.2012 Exercise 7
BasePlayer.h
BasePlayer.cpp
exercise7.cpp
Makefile
Ranking
Code Collection
OOP
3.12.2012 Exercise 8
tree_ex8.root
Trees and Fishers
10.12.2012 Exercise 9
tree_ex_9_signal.root
tree_ex_9_bg.root
tree_ex_9_data.root
TMVA
17.12.2012 Exercise 10
tree_ex10A.root
tree_ex10B.root
Bump hunting
7.1.2013 Exercise 11 Extendend Likelihood, Limits
21.1.2013 Exercise 12
pi0.root
no_pi0.root
A simple analysis
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