Scientific Program and Proceedings
Monday 8 September | Tuesday 9 September | Wednesday 10 September | Thursday 11 September |
Whole book (including all front and back matter) 18.9 MB | book | spires | |
Louis Lyons | Preface | paper |
Session 1 - Session Chairman: Bob Cousins
Eric Feigelson | Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy | paper | spires |
Roger Barlow | Introduction to Statistical Issues in Particle Physics | paper | spires |
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Session 2 - Session Chairman: John Rice
Brad Efron | Bayesians, Frequentists, and Physicists | paper | spires |
Philip Stark | Using What We Know: Inference with Physical Constraints | paper | spires |
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Session 3:A - Session Chairman: Bill Murray
James Linnemann | Measures of Significance in HEP and Astrophysics | paper | spires |
Wolfgang Rolke | How to Claim a Discovery | paper | spires |
Francesco Terranova | Scan Statistics in High Energy Physics | paper | spires |
Alfred Scharff Goldhaber | Supernova 1987A Neutrino Signal: Statistical Power of a Small Sample | paper | spires |
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Session 3:B - Session Chairman: Pekka Sinervo
Joel Heinrich | Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood | paper | spires |
Kay Kinoshita | An Unbinned Goodness-of-Fit Test Based on the Random Walk | paper | spires |
Rajendran Raja | A Measure of the Goodness of Fit in Unbinned Likelihood Fits; End of Bayesianism? | paper | spires |
Ilya Narsky | Goodness of Fit: What Do We Really Want To Know? | paper | spires |
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Session 4:A - Session Chairman: Glen Cowan
Peter Shawhan | Fundamental Issues in Statistical Detection of Physical Phenomena | paper | spires |
Giovanni Punzi | Sensitivity of Searches for New Signals and Its Optimization | paper | spires |
Bruce Knuteson | Systematic Analysis of HEP Collider Data | paper | spires |
William Quayle | Challenges in Moving the LEP Higgs Statistics to the LHC | paper | spires |
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Session 4:B - Session Chairman: Jim Linneman
Gunter Zech | A Multivariate Two-Sample Test Based on the Concept of Minimum Energy | paper | spires |
Volker Blobel | Some Comments on $\chi^2$ Minimization Applications | paper | spires |
Maria Grazia Pia | A Software Toolkit for Statistical Data Analysis | paper | spires |
Alberto Ribon | Code-Testing of Statistical Test Implementations | paper | spires |
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Session 5 - Session Chairman: Jogesh Babu
Persi Diaconis | A place for Philosophy? Bayesian Statistics in 2003 | ||
David Van Dyk | Highly-Structured Statistical Models in High-Energy Astrophysics | paper | spires |
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Session 6 - Session Chairman: Eric Feigelson
Bob Nichol | Data mining cosmological data sets: the need for fast and efficient algorithms | ||
Pekka Sinervo | Definition and Treatment of Systematic Uncertainties in High Energy Physics and Astrophysics | paper | spires |
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Session 7:A - Session Chairman: Roger Barlow
Ricard Vilalta | Evaluating and Constructing Features For Identification of Tau Leptons | paper | spires |
Sang-Joon Lee | Application of Adaptive Mixtures and Fractal Dimension Analysis Technique to Particle Physics | paper | spires |
Jean-Francois Cardoso | Separation of independent components from multi-detector measurements. Application to spectral estimation of the Cosmic Microwave Background |
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Session 7:B (Parallel) ROB Building 48, Redwood Room C/D - Session Chairman: Volker Blobel
Gunter Zech | Binning-Free Unfolding Based on Monte Carlo Migration | paper | spires |
Kristian Zarb Adami | Variational Methods in Bayesian Deconvolution | paper | spires |
Alexander Bukin | A Comparison of Methods for Confidence Intervals | paper | spires |
Giovanni Bonvicini | Maximal Information Analysis: I - Various Wayne State Plots | paper | spires |
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Session 8:A (Parallel) ROB Building 48, Redwood Room A/B - Session Chairman: Richard Mount
Ofer Levi | Multiscale Geometric Analysis for 3-D Galaxy Catalogs | ||
Andrew Askew | Event Selection Using Adaptive Gaussian Kernels | paper | spires |
Jeffrey Scargle | Adaptive Piecewise-constant Modeling of Signals in Multidimensional Spaces | paper | spires |
Thomas Loredo | Bayesian Adaptive Exploration in a Nutshell | paper | spires |
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Session 8:B - Session Chairman: Gunter Zech
Aaron Roodman | Blind Analysis in Particle Physics | paper | spires |
Lee Finn | Data analysis challenges of gravitational wave astronomy | ||
Alain Bellerive | Constraints on Neutrino Mixing Parameters with the SNO data | paper | spires |
Peter Litchfield | A Feldman-Cousins Likelihood Analysis of Soudan 2 Data for Atmospheric Neutrino Oscillations | paper | spires |
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Session 9 - Session Chairman: Gary Feldman
Seth Digel | Statistical Issues in High-Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy for GLAST | paper | spires |
Frank Porter | Statistical Issues in Particle Physics -- A View from BaBar | paper | spires |
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Session 10 - Session Chairman: Bill Murray
Jerry Friedman | Recent Advances in Predictive (Machine) Learning | paper | spires |
Harrison Prosper | Multivariate Analysis: Past, Present and Future |
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Session 11:A - Session Chairman: Dean Karlen
Jim Loudin | A Multivariate Method for Comparing N-dimensional Distributions | paper | spires |
Kyle Cranmer | Multivariate Analysis from a Statistical Point of View | paper | spires |
Byron Roe | Event Selection Using an Extended Fisher Discriminant Method | paper | spires |
Gary Hill | Optimizing the Limit Setting Potential of a Multivariate Analysis Using the Bayes Posterior Ratio | paper | spires |
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Session 11:B - Session Chairman: Jeffrey Scargle
David Newman | Point Processes and the Analysis of Collision Data | paper | spires |
Creon Levit | The Hyperwall | ||
Gunter Zech | A Simple Iterative Alignment Method Using Gradient Descending Minimum Search | paper | spires |
Gregory Dubois-Felsmann | Techniques for handling theoretical uncertainties: general tools and application to global CKM fits |
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Session 12:A - Session Chairman: Tom Loredo
Benjamin Wandelt | MAGIC: Exact Bayesian Covariance Estimation and Signal Reconstruction for Gaussian Random Fields | paper | spires |
Giovanni Punzi | Comments on Likelihood Fits with Variable Resolutions | paper | spires |
Lucio Baggio | Setting Confidence Intervals in Coincidence Search Analysis | paper | spires |
Florencia Canelli | Optimal Use of Information to Measure Top Quark Properties | paper | spires |
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Session 12:B - Session Chairman: Nancy Reid
Evan Scannapieco | Temporal Bias in the Clustering of Massive Cosmological Objects | paper | spires |
Roger Barlow | Asymmetric Errors | paper | spires |
Luc Demortier | Constructing Ensembles of Pseudo-Experiments | paper | spires |
Kyle Cranmer | Frequentist Hypothesis Testing with Background Uncertainty | paper | spires |
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Session 13 - Session Chairman: Jerry Friedman
Nancy Reid | Likelihood Inference in the Presence of Nuisance Parameters | paper | spires |
Fred James | A Unified Approach to Understanding Statistics | paper | spires |
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Session 14 - Session Chairman: Fred James
Chris Genovese | Doing Cosmology with balls and envelopes | ||
Benjamin Wandelt | Statistical Challenges of Cosmic Microwave Background Analysis | paper | spires |
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Session 15 - Session Chairman: Louis Lyons
Daniel Stump | Uncertainties of Parton Distribution Functions | paper | spires |
Panel Discussion | paper | spires | |
Panel Discussion Questions | paper | spires | |
Jerome Friedman | On Multivariate Goodness-of-Fit and Two-Sample Testing | paper | spires |
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Session 16 - Session Chairman: Brad Efron
John Rice | A View of PHYSTAT 2003 | paper | spires |
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Additional Submissions
Sergei Redin | Some Basic Statistical Equations for Histogram Fitting | paper | spires |
S.I. Bityukov and N.V. Krasnikov | Incorporating Systematics and Statistical Uncertainties into Exclusion Limits | paper | spires |
E.E. Kuruoglu | Bayesian Separation of Independent Sources in Astrophysical Radiation Maps Using MCMC | paper | spires |
D. Herranz, E.E. Kuruoglu, and L. Toffolatti | Using alpha-Stable Distributions to Model the P(D) Distribution of Point Sources in CMB Sky Maps | paper | spires |
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