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.

1 Introduction

Speaker: Eilam Gross (Weizmann Institute)

Slides StatForumMay25th.pdf

2 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

3 look elsewhere effect for exclusion

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

Slides atlas-statistics-lookelsewhere.pdf

4 CLs - a frequentist interpretation....

Speaker: Mr Ofer Vitells (Weizmann Inst.)

Slides CLs_and_conditional_limits.pdf

5 CLs - recommendations, thoughts

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

Slides cowan_atlas_25may10.pdf

6 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

7 Discussion

Speaker: ALL