Applied Statistics - Week 5

Monday the 17th - Friday the 21st of December 2018

ERDA shared link to full week material: FqrCU1yFsA

ERDA shared link to solution examples: AcsbVKTWSH

The following is a description of what we will go through during this week of the course. The chapter references and computer exercises are considered read, understood, and solved by the beginning of the following class, where I'll shortly go through the exercise solution.

NOTE: Sunday the 16th (at 22:00) is the deadline for the project. At the end of the week, we will by then essentially be done with most of the core curriculum, and I will not introduce anything fundamentally new on Friday.

General notes, links, and comments:
  • How to produce (great?) plots: Plotting inspiration and code


    Monday:
    The day will focus on calibration, which is a subtle subject, yet fairly straight forward, once you get the hang of the idea. The associated exercise is inspired by typical data analysis work.

    Reading:
  • No reading - logic and reason suffices.
    Lecture(s):
  • Calibration
    Computer Exercise(s):
  • Calibration: Calibration.ipynb
  • Calibration data file: data_calib.txt

    Tuesday:
    The subject of the day will be fitting, moving towards advanced cases of fitting. As stated, this is a bit of an artform, and there is little literature on the subject (only bitter experience!)

    Reading:
  • Possibly Barlow page 184, section 10.2.2.
  • Possibly Cowan page 65.
  • Possibly Bevington chapters 6-8 (best of the three!).
    Lecture(s):
  • Advanced Fitting
    Computer Exercise(s):
  • Advanced fitting: FitAndTestingDistributions.ipynb

    Friday:
    On Friday the 21st of December, I will not introduce anything new, but simply give a summary of the course so far and a review of the project experiments. In the exercise session, we will do the fun little "Coffee Usage" problem from Week4, which is about a (discontinuous) fit to determine the length of the Christmas vacation from the coffee usage in the NBI HEP group. There will also be chance to catch up and ask all the questions you might like to resolve before Christmas.

    Reading:
  • You should by now have read curriculum (roughly Barlow chapters 1-8).
    Lecture(s):
  • Project experiments review
    Computer Exercise(s):
  • NBI Coffee Usage problem CoffeeUsage.ipynb
    Last updated: 20th of December 2018.