Welcome to the Proceedings
PHYSTAT2003 was a Conference held at SLAC on September 8th - 11th, 2003. Its
theme was "Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and
Cosmology". It followed on from the Confidence Limits Workshops held at CERN and
Fermilab in 2000, and a conference in 2002 at the Institute for Particle Physics
Phenomenology in Durham, UK. PHYSTAT2003 differed from the earlier meetings in
two important respects. While the first three meetings had been attended largely
by particle physicists, at SLAC there was also involvement of astrophysicists
and cosmologists. Secondly, the SLAC meeting really benefited from a strong
presence of statisticians. They enhanced the usefulness of the Conference in
many ways: they were involved in the planning stage, gave invited and
contributed talks, and were simply "there" to discuss statistical issues with
physicists in the breaks between the sessions.
Editors:
Louis Lyons
Richard Mount
Rebecca Reitmeyer
SLAC-R-703
eConf C030908This work was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Energy under
Contract No. DE-AC03-76SF00515.
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