Overview
- Self-contained course-based graduate text
- Contains many exercises and worked-out examples
- New second edition significantly expands on the original material, with more background content applications and examples (e.g. look-elsewhere effect).
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Physics (LNP, volume 941)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Bayesian Versus Frequentist Probability Theory
- Data Analysis in High Energy Physics
- Experimental Particle Physics and Data Analysis
- Hypothesis Testing and Discovery-based Science
- Modified Frequentist Approach
- Parameter Estimation and Uncertainties
- Statistics Textbook for Particle Physics
- Look-elsewhere effect
About this book
This concise set of course-based notes provides the reader with the main concepts and tools needed to perform statistical analyses of experimental data, in particular in the field of high-energy physics (HEP).
First, the book provides an introduction to probability theory and basic statistics, mainly intended as a refresher from readers’ advanced undergraduate studies, but also to help them clearly distinguish between the Frequentist and Bayesian approaches and interpretations in subsequent applications. More advanced concepts and applications are gradually introduced, culminating in the chapter on both discoveries and upper limits, as many applications in HEP concern hypothesis testing, where the main goal is often to provide better and better limits so as to eventually be able to distinguish between competing hypotheses, or to rule out some of them altogether.
Many worked-out examples will help newcomers to the field and graduate students alike understand the pitfalls involved in applying theoretical concepts to actual data.
This new second edition significantly expands on the original material, with more background content (e.g. the Markov Chain Monte Carlo method, best linear unbiased estimator), applications (unfolding and regularization procedures, control regions and simultaneous fits, machine learning concepts) and examples (e.g. look-elsewhere effect calculation).
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Statistical Methods for Data Analysis in Particle Physics
Authors: Luca Lista
Series Title: Lecture Notes in Physics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62840-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing AG 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62840-0Published: 13 October 2017
Series ISSN: 0075-8450
Series E-ISSN: 1616-6361
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XVI, 257
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 97 illustrations in colour
Topics: Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory, Measurement Science and Instrumentation, Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences