Speaker
Helge Voss
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
Description
Extensive use of multivariate techniques has allowed the HEP
experiments to improve the information content extracted from their
data. This affected both the event reconstruction from the detector
response as well as the selection process along a given physics
signature. While in many aspects at the forefront of technology,
modern statistical analysis tools have only slowly moved from the
world of computer science to everyday physics analysis. This
presentation reviews multivariate techniques used in HEP, discusses
their strengths and challenges, and provides insight into techniques
developed elsewhere and their possible usefulness for HEP.
Primary author
Helge Voss
(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (DE))
