Tord Johansson Dept. of Physics and Astronomy Div. of Nuclear and Particle Physics Uppsala University Box 535, SE-7521 Uppsala, Sweden Phone: (+46) 18-4713886 E-mail: tord.johansson@fysast.uu.se Office: Å82411

This course is intended for final year undergraduate students an graduate students in experimental and theoretical physics. It introduces concepts and methods that are frequently used in statistical analysis of data and comparisons between data and theory/models. Topics covered in the Statisitical part are:

- Frequentistic vs. Bayesian approaches
- Probability distributions
- Errors and error propagation
- Parameter estimation, linear and non-linear, and hypothesis testing
- Background subtraction, significance of peaks etc.
 

The course duration is November - December 2009. First lecture will take place 2 November 10:15 at Å80127.

New dates for lectures 7 and 8 and lecture 9 sceduled (see schedule):
7 - 30 November, Å80116, 08:15
8 - 15 December, Å11167, 10:15

New time for lecture 9:

16 December, Å11167, 14:15

Schedule

Material
 

Examination: Hand in excercises

Literature: The course does not follow a specific text book but recommended readings are (in order of priority):

1. "Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences 3rd ed."- P.R. Bevington and D.K. Robinson (WCB/McGraw-Hill)
2. "Probability and Statistics in Particle Physics" - A.G. Frodesen, O. Skjeggestad and H. Tøfte

Supplemetary readings:

"Statistical Data Analysis" - G. Cowan (Oxford University Press)
"Probability and Statistics in Experimental Physics" - B.P. Roe (Springer-Verlag)
"Statistical Methods in Experimental Physisc" - F. James (World Scientific)