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Statistics Working Group
Documents
- Instructions for authors of the Report
- Analysis design
- Hypothesis tests
- Interval estimation
- Point Estimation
- Graphic presentation of
multivariate data
-
How to edit the report
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This section is concerned
with analysis design, including optimization and treatment of bias.
- Blind Analysis in Particle Physics (Aaron
Roodman, PHYSTAT2003) [PDF]
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This section is concerned with testing hypotheses, including
goodness-of-fit, signal significance, and
internal consistency of data.
- On Multivariate Goodness-of-Fit and Two-Sample
Testing (Jerome Friedman, PHYSTAT2003) [PDF]
- Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood
(Joel Heinrich, PHYSTAT2003) [PDF]
- The End of Chi-Squares and a New Era in Goodness
of Fit Tests (Ilya Narsky, seminar) [PDF]
- Goodness of Fit: What Do We Really Want to Know?
(Ilya Narsky, PHYSTAT2003) [PDF]
- Likelihood Ratio Test and Signal Significance
Test (Ilya Narsky) [PS]
- Repeat Consistency of a Result (Frank
Porter) [PDF]
- The Simple Hypothesis Test (Frank Porter) [PDF]
- Statistical error on measurement shifts (Art
Snyder) [BAD
note]
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This section is concerned with estimating intervals such as confidence
intervals and Bayes intervals.
- Asymmetric Errors (Roger Barlow,
PHYSTAT2003) [PDF]
- Comment on use of "CLS" method (Frank
Porter) [hn
posting]
- Interval Estimation Using the Likelihood Function
(Frank Porter) [PS]
- Frequentist
interval construction by Feldman and
Cousins [physics
archive entry] Note: this method
is not recommended by the BaBar SWG Report.
- Errors
on Small Numbers
[Web Page]
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This section is concerned with estimation of "best" values for
parameters.
- Low Statistics Likelihood Fits are Tricky
(Frank Porter) [PS]
- Pedagogical
notes on maximum likelihood method [PS];
Deviations from
Gaussian behavior for low N. Not for the faint of heart [PS]
(two notes from Bob Cahn)
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- Recommendations for Display of Projections in
Multi-Dimensional Analyses (SWiG) [PDF]
- sPlots (Muriel Pivk and Francois Le
Diberder) [NIM
paper][BAD
note][PDF
talk]>
- How sPlots are Best (Robert Cahn) [PDF]
- Simple sPlots example (Robert Cahn) [PS]
- Horizontal
placement of points for measurements within wide bins (George
Lafferty) [PDF
talk][Paper]
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SWG convenors: Roger Barlow and Ilya Narsky
Last modified: Wed Jan 11 14:31:39 PST 2006
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