ATLAS Statistics Forum

Tuesday 25 May 2010, 16:00 → 19:00 Europe/Zurich

40/S2-D01 - Salle Dirac (CERN)

Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute), Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)

This is a special statistics forum to discuss ATLAS policy towards deriving upper bounds (CLs etc) and significance.

16:00 → 16:20 Introduction

Speaker: Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute)

Slides StatForumMay25th.pdf

16:20 → 16:40 Statistical Methods in the Exotic Group

Speaker: Ferrag, Samir

Frequentist_Slides Frequen

Slides

• 100504_forSamirStatistics_dijetMass.pdf
• Pribyl_ChiBayes_25May10.pdf
• Pribyl_ChiBayes_25May10.ppt

16:40 → 17:00 look elsewhere effect for exclusion

Speaker: Daniel Whiteson (University of California-Unknown-Unknown)

Slides atlas-statistics-lookelsewhere.pdf

17:00 → 17:20 CLs - a frequentist interpretation....

Speaker: Mr Ofer Vitells (Weizmann Inst.)

Slides CLs_and_conditional_limits.pdf

17:20 → 17:50 CLs - recommendations, thoughts

Speaker: Glen Cowan (Royal Holloway College-University of London-Unknown)

Slides cowan_atlas_25may10.pdf

17:50 → 18:20 Significant Recommendations....

Comments and recommendation for Statistical Techniques

Speaker: Kyle Cranmer (NYU)

Link https://twiki.cern.ch/twiki/bin/view/AtlasProtected/ATLASStatisticsFAQ

Slides StatF_Recomendations_25-05-10.pdf

18:20 → 18:40 Discussion

Speaker: ALL