.. _statistics:

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  A too-brief and too-long introduction to statistics
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This section is for those students who have had little or no exposure to
statistics before taking this tutorial. 

Strictly speaking, this section has nothing to do with ROOT *per se*;
that's part of why it's "too long." However, I was asked to include
something on these topics to hopefully give you a head start as you get
involved with the research you'll do this summer. [#f110]_

My goal is to explain the following
terms of statistics "jargon" [#f109]_ that physicists use.

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 1
   
   Gaussian.md
   Poisson.md
   ChiSquared.md
   ChiSquaredDOF.md
   FiveSigma.md
   SystematicErrors.md

.. rubric:: Footnotes

.. [#f110] The full subject of statistics is deep and beautiful, and you can spend a lifetime... well, you know the rest.

.. [#f109] In this discussion, when I say "physicists do this" or "physicists do that," it's not exclusive. Other fields of study use the same jargon. However, since I mostly hang out with physicists and not cultural anthropologists or librarians, I'll only speak for the folks I know.