STATISTICS, ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES & SIMULATION BIBLIOGRAPHY

Statistics

• CDF Statistics Committee Homepage
• " Likelihood Fits ", (talk given at NEPPSR I, 2002), C. Blocker; here
• " Sifting data in the real world ", M.W. Block; physics/0506010
• " A New Technique for Finding Needles in Haystacks: A Geometric Approach to Distinguishing Between a New Source and Random Fluctuations ", R.S. Pilla, C. Loader, and C. Taylor; physics/0505200
• " On Bayesian Treatement of Systematic Uncertainties in Confidence Interval Calculations ", F. Tegenfeldt, J. Conrad; physics/0408039
• " Optimal observables and phase-space ambiguities ", O. Nachtmann, F. Nagel; physics/0407224
• " Asymmetric Statistical Errors ", R. Barlow; physics/0406120
• " Computation of Confidence Levels for Exclusion or Discovery of a Signal with the Method of Fractional Event Counting ", P. Bock; hep-ex/0405072
• " Goodness-of-fit tests in many dimensions ", A. van Hameren; physics/0405008
• " Confidence Intervals with Frequentist Treatment of Statistical and Systematic Uncertainties ", W.A. Rolke, A.M. Lopez, J. Conrad; physics/0403059
• " A note on Delta ln L = -1/2 Errors ", R. Barlow; physics/0403046
• " An Unfolding Method for High Energy Physics Experiments ", V. Blobel; hep-ex/0208022
• " Signal Significance in Particle Physics ", P.K. Sinervo; hep-ex/0208005
• " Systematic Errors: facts and fictions ", R. Barlow; hep-ex/0207026
• " Including Systematic Uncertainties in Confidence Interval Construction for Poisson Statistics ", J. Conrad, O. Botner, A. Hallgren and C.P. de los Heros; hep-ex/0202013
• " Frequentist and Bayesian Confidence Limits ", G. Zech; hep-ex/0106023
• " Tutorial on Bayesian Analysis ", G. D'Agostini; html
• " Clopper-Pearson Bounds from HEP Data Cuts ", B.A.Berg; hep-ph/0010061
• " Multivariate Fitting and the Error Matrix in Global Analysis of Data ", J. Pumplin, D. R. Stump, and W. K. Tung; hep-ph/0008191
• " Setting Confidence Belts ", B. P. Roe and M. B. Woodroofe; hep-ex/0007048
• " Bayesian Analysis ", H.Prosper; hep-ph/0006356
• " Averaging Measurements with Hidden Correlations and Asymmetric Errors ", M. Schmelling; hep-ex/0006004
• " Confidence Intervals and Upper Bounds for Small Signals in the Presence of Background Noise ", Wolfgang A. Rolke and Angel M. Lopez; hep-ph/0005187
• " Confronting classical and Bayesian confidence limits to examples ", G. Zech; hep-ex/0004011
• A compendium of confidence-level related work, G. D'Agostini, M. Raso
• " Upper Limits in the Case That Zero Events are Observed: An Intuitive Solution to the Background Dependence Puzzle ", P. Astone and G. Pizzella; hep-ex/0002028
• " The statistical and physical significance of confidence intervals ", C. Giunti, M. Laveder; hep-ex/0002020
• " Constraining the Higgs boson mass through the combination of direct search and precision measurement results ", G D'Agostini and G. Degrassi; hep-ph/0001269
• " Confidence belts on bounded parameters ", J.Bouchez; hep-ex/0001036
• " A Proposal for a Different Chi-square Function for Poisson Distributions ", F. M. L. Almeida Jr., M. Barbi and M. A. B. do Vale; hep-ex/9911042
• " Computation of confidence intervals for Poisson processes ", J. A. Aguilar-Saavedra; hep-ex/9911024
• " The Statistical Analysis of Gaussian and Poisson Signals Near Physical Boundaries ", M.Mandelkern and J.Schultz; hep-ex/9910041
• " Inferring the intensity of Poisson processes at the limit of the detector sensitivity (with a case study on gravitational wave burst search) ", P. Astone and G. D'Agostini; CERN-EP/99-126 hep-ex/9909047
• " Propagation of Errors for Matrix Inversion ", M. Lefebvre, R.K. Keeler, R. Sobie, J. White; hep-ex/9909031
• " Observability and Probability of Discovery in Future Experiments ", S.I.Bityukov, N.V.Krasnikov; hep-ph/9908402
• " Application of Bayesian probability theory to the measurement of binomial data at past and future Tevatron experiments ", M.L.Kelly; hep-ex/9908044
• " Confidence Level Computation for Combining Searches with Small Statistics ", T.Junk hep-ex/9902006
• " Treatment of the background error in the statistical analysis of Poisson processes ", C. Giunti; hep-ex/9901015
• " Bayesian reasoning versus conventional statistics in High Energy Physics ", physics/9811046
• " New Physics Discovery Potential in Future Experiments ", S.I. Bityukov, N.V. Krasnikov; hep-ph/9811025
• " Inherent Biases in the Ansatz Function Method used to Search for New Particles Decaying to Two-Jets in pbarp Collisions ", I.Bertram; hep-ph/9811444
• " Joint Bayesian Treatment of Poisson and Gaussian Experiments in a Chi-squared Statistic ", D.Silverman physics/9808004
• " A Unified Approach to the Classical Statistical Analysis of Small Signals ", G.J.Feldman and R.D.Cousins Phys. Rev. D57 (3873) 1998, physics/9711021

Analysis Techniques

• CDF Statistics Committee Homepage
• " Application of Genetic Programming to High Energy Physics Event Selection ", FOCUS; physics/0503007
• " Boosted Decision Trees, an Alternative to Artificial Neural Networks ", B.P. Roe, H. Yang, J. Zhu, Y. Liu, I. Stancu, G. McGregor; physics/0408124

Simulation

• " The MC@NLO 3.1 Event Generator " S. Frixione, B.R. Webber; hep-ph/0506182
• " Les Houches Guidebook to Monte Carlo Generators for Hadron Collider Physics " M.A. Dobbs, et al; hep-ph/0403045
• " PYTHIA 6.2 Physics and Manual " T. Sjostrand, L. Lonnblad and S. Mrenna; hep-ph/0108264