Statistics for High Energy Physics (2/5)

by Pietro Vischia (Universite Catholique de Louvain (UCL) (BE))

Tuesday 25 Jun 2019, 10:00 → 16:00 Europe/Brussels

E/3rd floor-E.349 - Seminar room (E.349) (Marc de Hemptinne (chemin du Cyclotron, 2, Louvain-la-Neuve))

Theoretical lesson + hands-on exercises: 10:00--12:30

 

 

Lesson 2: Point and Interval estimation

- Estimators

- Likelihood principle

- Maximum likelihood method, confidence intervals from likelihood scan

- Confidence intervals: Neyman construction, Feldman-Cousins, etc.

- Most Probable Values, Credible Intervals

 

Each theoretical lesson will be followed by a hands-on tutorial

2019-06-24to29_statisticsCourseAtUCLouvain_part2_vischia.pdf

Exercises