Basics

Detector & statistics in a nutshell

  1. Statistical data analysis in a nutshell
  2. Probability
  3. Probability Distributions
  4. Cumulative Distributions
    The integral of a p.d.f. f(x) up to a certain value x is called the CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION
    cumulativedistribution
    Hence
    probabilityfromcumulativedistribution
    The last condition reflects the fact that any probability distribution is normalized to 1.

  5. Expectation Values
  6. Functions of random variables
  7. Specific Probability Distributions
  8. Parameter Estimation from Data
  9. Statistical Tests
  10. Basic detector concepts
  11. Problems