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<p>Created page with &quot; == Special seminar &quot;Advanced statistics for discoveries&quot; == === Advanced theory and hands-on part === Tuesday &lt;br&gt; 9.30 - 12.00 - Part 1 &lt;br&gt; 12.00 - brea...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div><br /> <br /> == Special seminar &quot;Advanced statistics for discoveries&quot; ==<br /> <br /> === Advanced theory and hands-on part === <br /> <br /> Tuesday &lt;br&gt;<br /> 9.30 - 12.00 - Part 1 &lt;br&gt;<br /> 12.00 - break / Ice3 result announcement and drink &lt;br&gt;<br /> 14:00 - 18.00 - Part 2 &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> Wednesday &lt;br&gt;<br /> 9.00 - 12.30 - Part 3 &lt;br&gt;<br /> 14:00 - 17:00 - Part 4 &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> Parts: &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> 1) Introduction, probabilities, hypothesis testing and confidence intervals, test statistics &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> 2) Model building in RooFit, signal and background models, constructing likelihood ratios and other test statistics &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> 3) Nuisance parameters (introducing them in models and dealing with them in hypothesis testing), using RooStats for limit setting and hypothesis testing. &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> 4) Expected limits, asymptotic formulae, the look-elsewhere effect, the Standard Model Brout-Englert-Higgs boson search combination as example &lt;br&gt;<br /> <br /> Each module is ~40 minutes to 1 hour of lecture followed by ~2 hours of hands-on exercise. <br /> <br /> [http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~pvanlaer/RooStats/statistics_2012_part1_v9.pdf Slides part 1]<br /> [http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~pvanlaer/RooStats/statistics_2012_part2_v9.pdf part 2]<br /> [http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~pvanlaer/RooStats/statistics_2012_part3_v9.pdf part 3]<br /> [http://w3.iihe.ac.be/~pvanlaer/RooStats/statistics_2012_part4_v9.pdf part 4]<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> {{TracNotice|{{PAGENAME}}}}</div>

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