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Report number	CERN-2008-001
Conference title	PHYSTAT-LHC Workshop on Statistical Issues for LHC Physics
Related conference title(s)	PHYSTAT LHC
Date(s), location	27 - 29 Jun 2007, CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Conference contact	email: Dorothee.Denise@cern.ch or l.lyons@physics.ox.ac.uk
Editor(s)	Lyons, Louis (ed.) (CERN) ; Prosper, Harrison (ed.) (CERN) ; de Roeck, Albert (ed.) (CERN)
Imprint	Geneva : CERN, 2008 - 219 p.
Series	(CERN Yellow Reports: Conference Proceedings)
ISBN	9789290833086 (print version, paperback)
DOI	e-proceedings: 10.5170/CERN-2008-001
Abstract	A PHYSTAT workshop on the topic of Statistical issues for LHC physics was held at CERN. The workshop focused on issues related to discovery that we hope will be relevant to the LHC. These proceedings contain written versions of nearly all the talks, several of which were given by professional statisticians. The talks varied from general overviews, to those describing searches for specific particles. The treatment of background uncertainties figured prominently. Many of the talks describing search strategies for new effects should be of interest not only to particle physicists but also to scientists in other fields.
Copyright/License	publication: © 2008-2024 CERN (License: CC-BY-3.0)

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The Last Fifty Years of Statistical Researh and Their Implications for Particle Physics (p. 3)

by Cox, D R

A Comparison of Testing Methodologies (p. 8)

by Berger, James

P Values and Nuisance Parameters (p. 23)

by Demortier, Luv

Testing for a Signal (p. 34)

by Rolke, Wolfgang A

Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process (p. 40)

by Tucker, Jordan

Statistics for the LHC : Progress, Challenges, and Future(p. 47)

by Cranmer, Kyle S

Experiences from Tevatron Searches (p. 61)

by Fisher, Wade

ATLAS and CMS Statistics Wish-List (p. 71)

by Gross, Eilam

Some Statistical Issues in the LHCb Experiment (p. 76)

by Xie, Yuehong

ALICE Statistical Wish-list (p. 83)

by Belikov, Iouri

Dilution of a statistical significance of a signal in the Higgs boson searches in the $H \to ZZ(*) \to 4\mu$ channel at LHC (p. 90)

by Drozdetskiy, A

A Pitfall in evluating Systematic Errors (p. 94)

by Linnenmann, James T

Some Aspects of Design of Experiments (p. 99)

by Reid, Nancy

Computing Likelihood Functions for High-Energy Physics Experiments when Distributions are Defined by Simulators with Nuisance Parameters (p. 111)

by Neal, Radford, M

The Wish-lists : some Comments(p. 119)

by Cox, D R

Review of the Banff Challenges on Upper Limits (p. 125)

by Heinrich, Joel

Probality Matching Priors in LHC Physics (p. 135)

by Baines, P D

The role of uncertainties in parton distribution functions (p. 141)

by Thorne, R S

Weighting Background-Subtracted Events (p. 151)

by Linnemann, James T

Subtracting and Fitting Histograms using Profile Likelihood (p. 155)

by D'Almeida, F M L

SFitter : Determining Supersymmetric Parameters(p. 159)

by Lafaye, Rémi

A Bayesian Approach to the Constrained MSMM (p. 163)

by Roszkowski, Leszek

Statistical Software for the LHC (p. 169)

by Verkerke, Wounter

ROOT Statistical Software (p. 179)

by Moneta, Lorenzo

TMVA : The Toolkit for Multivariate Data Analysis eith ROOT(p. 184)

by Höcker, Andreas

StatPatternRecognition on Analysis of HEP and Astrophysics Data (p. 188)

by Narsky, I

PhysStat-LHC Conference Summary (p. 195)

by Cousins, Robert D

The Early History of Bayesian Ideas (p. 201)

by James, F

LHC Statistics for Pedestrians (p. 205)

by Gross, Eilam

Statistical Issues at LHCb

by Xie, Yuehong

Some Statistical Issues in the LHCb Experiment

by Xie, Yuehong

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