PHY310 Class Calendar

Tuesday, January 23

1) What is Statistical Data Analysis?; Data Presentation

There is a short tutorial for running ROOT on windows.

Thursday, January 25

2) Basic Computing

Homework (Fri, Feb 2)

Tuesday, January 30

3) Experimental Uncertainty and Probability

Thursday, February 1

4) Probability and Propagating Uncertainty

Homework (Fri, Feb 9)

Tuesday, February 6

5) Probability Distributions

Thursday, February 8

6) The Monte Carlo Method

Homework (Fri, Mar 2)

Tuesday, February 13

7) Likelihood Method/Chi Squared for Linear Models

Thursday, February 15

8) Likelihood/Chi-Squared for Non-Linear Models

Homework (Fri Mar 2)

Tuesday, February 20

9) Confidence Intervals

Thursday, February 22

10) Function Minimization and Fitting

Tuesday, February 27

11) Using MINUIT

Thursday, March 1

12) Goodness of Fit

Tuesday, March 6

13) Statistical Tests: Discriminants

Thursday, March 8

14) Statistical Tests: More Discriminants

Tuesday, March 13

15) Statistical Tests: Heuristic Discriminants

Thursday, March 15

16) Analyzing Data

Homework (Due March 30)

Tuesday, March 20

17) Starting a Data Analysis

Thursday, March 22

18) Data Analysis II

Tuesday, March 27

19) Understanding the Data: π° Physics

Thursday, March 29

20) Understanding the Data: Atmospheric Neutrino Physics

Tuesday, April 3

Spring Break

Thursday, April 5

Spring Break

Tuesday, April 10

21) Selecting a Signal

Thursday, April 12

22) Characterizing a Signal

Tuesday, April 17

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Thursday, April 19

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Tuesday, April 24

25) Confidence Intervals

Thursday, April 27

26) Confidence Limits

Tuesday, May 1

27)

Thursday, May 3

28)

last lecture

Tuesday, May 10

Final Project Due

Final project due by 5pm