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8–21 Sept 2024
DESY
Europe/Zurich timezone

Data Analysis L4: Confidence intervals

16 Sept 2024, 11:30
1h
Building 1b SR4a/b (DESY)

Building 1b SR4a/b

DESY

Lecture

Speaker

Toni Sculac (University of Split Faculty of Science (HR))

Description

In this lecture we will define confidence intervals and make a strong statement on their statistical interpretation when discussing scientific results. We will discuss Neiman confidence belt and Bayesian confidence intervals. Finally, we will learn how to derive confidence intervals for the Maximum likelihood and Least Squares methods.

Presentation materials