Recommended Reading

General Background

• Textbooks by Eadie et al, Lyons, Barlow and Cowan
• SLAC PHYSTAT2003 Conference on 'Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology': http://www-conf.slac.stanford.edu/phystat2003/. In particular the following articles provide a general introduction to current statistical issues in the analysis of data in Astrophysics and in Particle Physics respectively:
  • Eric Feigelson, 'Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy' http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C030908/papers/MOAT001.pdf ;
  • Roger Barlow, 'Introduction to Statistical Issues in Particle Physics' http://www.slac.stanford.edu/econf/C030908/papers/MOAT002.pdf.
• Durham Conference on `Advanced Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics': http://www.ippp.dur.ac.uk/Workshops/02/statistics/
• BaBar Statistics Working Group web page: http://www.slac.stanford.edu/BFROOT/www/Statistics/bibliography.html
• CDF Statistics Committee web page: http://www-cdf.fnal.gov/physics/statistics/statistics.html
• Statistics section in 'Review of Particle Properties' by Particle Data Group
• R. Cousins, 'Why isn't every Physicist a Bayesian?' Am J Phys 63 (1995) 398
• Van Dyk, David A. (2002). Hierarchical Models, Data Augmentation, and Markov Chain Monte Carlo in Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy III (Eds: E. Feigelson and G. J. Babu), Springer, pages 41 - 54.
• Gutti J. Babu, Eric Feigelson, (1996), Astrostatistics: Interdisciplinary Statistics

Limits

• Workshop on Confidence Limits, CERN Yellow Report 2000-005, or http://cern.web.cern.ch/CERN/Divisions/EP/Events/CLW/
• FNAL Confidence Limits Workshop: http://conferences.fnal.gov/cl2k/
• Ilya Narsky, 'Expected coverage of Bayesian confidence intervals for mean of Poisson statistic in measurements with background', SMUHEP-00-03, hep-ex/0005019

Bayesian Priors

• Kass and Wasserman, JASA 91, # 435, 1343 (1996), also as http://www.stat.cmu.edu/www/cmu-stats/tr/tr583/tr583.html
• Jim L's Fermilab talk in http://conferences.fnal.gov/cl2k/copies/linnemann1.pdf

Systematics

• Roger Barlow, SLUO Lectures on Statistics and Numerical Methods in HEP, Lecture 5: Systematic Errors. Available via BaBar Statistics Working Group web page
• R. D. Cousins and V. Highland, NIM A320 (1992) 331

Goodness of Fit

• Joel Heinrich 'Can the likelihood function be used to measure goodness of fit?' CDF/MEMO/BOTTOM/CDFR/5639, and available via CDF Statistics Committee web page

Combining Results

• W Mass Summer 01 Conference note: Combined Preliminary Results on the Mass and Width of the W Boson Measured by the LEP Experiments, LEP W Working Group,July 2001
• TGC Summer 01 Conference note: Combined Results for Electroweak Gauge Boson Couplings Measured on the LEP Experiments, LEP GC Working Group, July 2001.
• Both notes are available from the LEP EW WG pages http://lepewwg.web.cern.ch/LEPEWWG/

Related web-sites

See http://astrostatistics.psu.edu/ for the Penn State Astrostatistics Center. There are many activities and resources such as curriculum development, tutorial workshops, Web-based resources, and public software, mainly for the astronomical and space science communities.