Recommended Reading

General Background

Textbooks by Eadie et al, Lyons, Barlow and Cowan
Durham Conference on `Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics': http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Workshops/02/statistics/
BaBar Statistics Working Group web page: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Statistics/bibliography.html
CDF Statistics Committee web page: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/statistics/statistics.html
Statistics section in 'Review of Particle Properties' by Particle Data Group
R. Cousins, 'Why isn't every Physicist a Bayesian?' Am J Phys 63 (1995) 398
Van Dyk, David A. (2002). Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III (Eds: E. Feigelson and G. J. Babu), Springer, pages 41 - 54.
Gutti J. Babu, Eric Feigelson, (1996), Astrostatistics: Interdisciplinary Statistics

Workshop on Confidence Limits, CERN Yellow Report 2000-005, or http://cern.web.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/EP/Events/CLW/
FNAL Confidence Limits Workshop: http://conferences.fnal.gov/cl2k/
Ilya Narsky, 'Expected coverage of Bayesian confidence intervals for mean of Poisson statistic in measurements with background', SMUHEP-00-03, hep-ex/0005019

Roger Barlow, SLUO Lectures on Statistics and Numerical Methods in HEP, Lecture 5: Systematic Errors. Available via BaBar Statistics Working Group web page
R. D. Cousins and V. Highland, NIM A320 (1992) 331

Joel Heinrich 'Can the likelihood function be used to measure goodness of fit?' CDF/MEMO/BOTTOM/CDFR/5639, and available via CDF Statistics Committee web page

W Mass Summer 01 Conference note: Combined Preliminary Results on the Mass and Width of the W Boson Measured by the LEP Experiments, LEP W Working Group,July 2001
TGC Summer 01 Conference note: Combined Results for Electroweak Gauge Boson Couplings Measured on the LEP Experiments, LEP GC Working Group, July 2001.
Both notes are available from the LEP EW WG pages http://lepewwg.web.cern.ch/LEPEWWG/