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Setting limits and application to Higgs boson search
Description
This lecture summarizes the basic concept of hypothesis testing, will introduce the concepts of significance and upper limit under the frequentist and Bayesian approaches, and will discuss the benefits and limitations of the most popular approaches. Special attention will be devoted to the so-called modified frequentist approach, which is a popular method in High Energy Physics, and some application to real physics cases will be discussed. (authors)
Availability note (English)
Available from doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/20135403003Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Publisher
- EDP Sciences
- Imprint Place
- Les Ulis (France)
- ISBN
- 978-2-7598-1032-1
- Imprint Title
- EPJ Web of Conferences, Proceedings of SOS 2012 - 3. IN2P3 School of Statistics
- Imprint Pagination
- (v.55) 224 p.
- Journal Page Range
- p. 03003.p.1-03003.p.29
Conference
- Title
- 3. IN2P3 School of Statistics
- Acronym
- SOS 2012
- Dates
- 28 May - 1 Jun 2012
- Place
- Autrans (France)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- France
- Country of Input or Organization
- France
- INIS RN
- 45052275
- Subject category
- S97: MATHEMATICAL METHODS AND COMPUTING; S72: PHYSICS OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES AND FIELDS;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ALGORITHMS; COUNTING TECHNIQUES; DATA COVARIANCES; DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HIGGS BOSONS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MAXIMUM-LIKELIHOOD FIT; PROBABILITY; STATISTICS
- Descriptors DEC
- BOSONS; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; FUNCTIONS; MATHEMATICAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL SOLUTIONS; MATHEMATICS; NUMERICAL SOLUTION; PHYSICS; POSTULATED PARTICLES
Optional Information
- Notes
- 25 refs