Practical statistics for physics analyses (Master and PhD course)

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1. Introduction

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ntroductory material: Reminder of what should be known from undergraduate days, but with some new insights. Probability and Statistics. Conditional Probability. Combining uncertainties. Combining results. Binomial, Poisson and Gaussian distributions

2. Likelihoods

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Likelihoods for parameter determination. What coverage is. Unbinned likelihood and goodness of fit.

3. Chi-squared for parameters, and for goodness of fit. Number of degrees of freedom. Kinematic fitting. The paradox.

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8. Covariance

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6. Discoveries

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Searches for New Physics: Discovery or Upper Limits. Example of Higgs search

5. Discoveries

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