STATISTICAL METHODS and TECHNIQUES for DATA ANALYSIS

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

Mini-course / 4-11 April 2025 / UOI Department of Physics
Erasmus+ Teaching Mobility (Erasmus+ funds by University of Bari Aldo Moro )

This mini-course is an introduction to the statistical data analysis
with examples and applications borrowed by High Energy Physics.

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 Master students
and students that are doing a research thesis in HEP but also to Ph.D. students.

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

Local organizers: I.Papadopoulos & K.Foudas


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 G.Cowan, F.James, L.Lista, W.Verkerke whose slides and presentations (available on the web)
have inspired me while producing the teaching material of this mini-course. Many thanks to U.Sozbilir for helping in setting up the PyRoot exercises..


Temptative Agenda

(work-in-progress; material will be added during the course)

- Friday 4 / 16.00 - 18.00 : Introduction of the course and framework preparation

- Monday 7 / 11.00 - 13.00 : 2 hours theory/seminar
- Monday 7 / 15.30 - 17.30 : 2 hours hands-on/exercise

- Tuesday 8 / 11.00 - 13.00 : 2 hours theory/seminar
- Tuesday 8 / 15.30 - 17.30 : 2 hours hands-on/exercises

- Wednesday 9 / 11.00 - 13.00 : 2 hours theory/seminar
- Wednesday 9 / 15.30 - 17.30 : 2 hours hands-on/exercises

- Thursday 10 / 11.00 - 13.00 : 2 hours theory/seminar
- Thursday 10 / 15.30 - 17.30 : 2 hours hands-on/exercises

- Friday 11 / 11.00 - 13.00 : 2 hours hands-on/exercises

In total, the mini-course consists of 20 hours (with 8 hours for seminars + 10 hours for hands-on activities)

Co-tutoring of the students during the hands-on session will be gently provided by Prof. I.Papadopoulos

Material

Hands-on 3: Slides-3 , Notebook-3


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.