STATISTICAL METHODS and AI TECHNIQUES for DATA ANALYSIS

Professor: Alexis Pompili
(University of Bari Aldo Moro & I.N.F.N.-Bari)

Mini-course / 13-20 May 2026 / NKUA Department of Physics (@ Zografou Campus) - IASA Seminar Room
Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility (Erasmus+ funds by the consortium TUCEP )

This mini-course concerns the statistical data analysis
with examples of applications borrowed by High Energy Physics and includes AI applications

It cannot be, of course, an all-encompassing course, but concepts are introduced
and used coherently and some selected topics are treated in a detailed way within an hands-on approach.

For this reason the mini-course is addressed not only to 4th year students and Master students
and students that are doing a research thesis in HEP but also to Ph.D. students who want to refresh or deepen their knowledge.

Hands-on exercises are carried out within a Jupyter Notebook executed in the Google Colab framework.

Local organizers: P. Sphicas

Compact description of contents and topics of the course

Work-in-progress...

Suggested textbooks for the theoretical part of the course (where it is possible to find useful material to deepen subjects introduced in the course) :

- G.Cowan (edition 1998)

- L.Lista (Springer Ed., 3rd edition)(available only to the students following the course upon request)

- W.J.Metzger (edition 2010)

Credits go to U.Sozbilir for helping in setting up the PyRoot exercises.

Copyright: all the material of this course could be used ONLY under permission of the author (pompili AT ba.infn.it) and with proper acknowledgment.

Final Agenda

(material will be added during the course)

Lectures integrated with hands-on will be on Wednesday 13, Thursday 14, Friday 15, Monday 18, Tuesday 19 and Wednesday 20 with the following timeplan:

- Wednesday 13.05 / 2 hours (14:00-16:00) theory/seminar

- Thursday 14.05 / 2 hours (10-12) theory/seminar + 2 hours (14-16) hands-on/exercises

- Friday 15.05 / 2 hours (10-12) theory/seminar + 2 hours (14-16) hands-on/exercise

- Monday 18.05 / 2 hours (10-12) theory/seminar + 2 hours (14-16) hands-on/execise

- Tuesday 19.05 / 2 hours (10-12) theory/seminar + 2 hours (14-16) hands-on/exercises

- Wednesday 20.05 / 4 (2+2) hours (13-15 and 16-18) hands-on/exercise

In total, the mini-course consists of 22 hours (with 10 hours for seminars + 12 hours for hands-on activities)

Material

Theory-1: Probability Theory Slides-1

Copyright: all the material of this course could be used only under permission of the author (pompili AT ba.infn.it) and with proper acknowledgment.