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Statistics and Data Analysis (HEP)
Prof. dr hab. Elżbieta Richter-Wąs
Follow the course/slides from M. A. Thomson lectures at Cambridge University
ALEPH (LEP detector) event display
Lectures Synopsis
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Experimental Physics
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Three Types of Errors
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Probability Distributions
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Mean and Variance
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Estimating the Mean and Variance
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Special Probability Distributions
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Binomial Distribution
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Variance of the binomial distribution
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15
Example: Efficiency Uncertainty
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A more advanced analysis
17
a problem …
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The Poisson Distribution
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The Poisson Distribution
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Properties of the Poisson Distribution
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Example I
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Example II
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High Statistics Limit of Poisson Distribution
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Next lecture
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