Suggested Reading

GENERAL BACKGROUND:

Textbooks by Eadie et al, Lyons, Barlow and Cowan

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

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/

Comments to Louis Lyons