Introduction to Statistical Methods
YETI 2007 |
Course description: The lectures will present an introduction to statistical methods as used in High Energy Physics. As the time will be very limited, the course will seek mainly to define the important issues and to introduce the most widely used tools. Topics will include the interpretation and use of probability, estimation of parameters and testing of hypotheses.
Lecture Notes in PowerPoint or pdf formats:
The code for a simple example of the Monte Carlo method is here. It is used to generate data which can be used in a maximum likelihood fit; code is here.The YETI lectures are adapted from a course for postgrads at the University of London. The complete set of lecture notes for that course plus other resources can be found here.
Here are some other statistics talks I have given recently:
Some books:
PDG: You can also download the sections on probability (ps, pdf), statistics (ps, pdf), and Monte Carlo (ps, pdf) from the Particle Data Group.