Academic Training Lecture Regular Programme

Practical Statistics for Particle Physicists (4/5)

by Lyons, L. (Oxford University, GB)

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500/1-001 - Main Auditorium (CERN)

500/1-001 - Main Auditorium

CERN

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Bayes, Frequentism and limits Lecture Bayes, Frequentism and limits Bayes and frequentist probability. Everyday examples. Prob(data;theory) is not equal to Prob(theory;data) Bayes theorem. Bayesian prior. When priors are and are not important. Frequentist confidence intervals, and their properties. Limits calculations by Bayes, Neyman construction and Feldman-Cousins Summary of Bayes and Frequentist approaches
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