Andrea Valassi & Domenico Giordano, Quantitative data analysis: practices, tools and avoidable pitfalls from measurement to data presentation.

Wednesday 18 Feb 2015, 14:30 → 16:00 Europe/Zurich

513/1-024 (CERN)

WhiteArea lectures' twiki HERE

First lecture, 18th Feb 2015: http://indico.cern.ch/event/351669
Second lecture, 3rd Jun 2015: http://indico.cern.ch/event/359080

This series of two White Area lectures is an introduction to methods for statistical data analysis. 
We will give an overview of concepts including uncertainties in measurements, applied probability, hypothesis testing, analysis of variance, data visualisation and reduction. 

Common tools to use (such as ROOT, python and python statistical libraries) as well as common pitfalls to avoid will be also described through examples extracted from real cases.

NB!!! Room is 513-1-024

• The tool mentioned by Nathalie is called SciKit http://scikit-learn.org/stable/
• The upcoming Academic Training lectures on statistics starting on April 7th start from https://indico.cern.ch/event/358542/

 

Slides 20150218_stats_1whitearea_DG_AV_03_final.pdf 20150218_stats_1whitearea_DG_AV_03_final.pptx