Date: February 22, 2007
Time: 10:30 am - 11:30 am

This week, Louis Lyons from Oxford University will be giving a series of four lectures on statistics. An outline of the material to be covered is included below.

The lectures will be Tuesday through Friday, February 20-23, 10:30-11:30, with time for questions and discussion afterwards.
They will be held in the Panofsky Auditorium in order that we may also videotape them.

The lectures will also become available on the web page:
http://www-group.slac.stanford.edu/sluo/Lectures/Stat2007_lectures.htm
Please note that Louis' earlier SLAC colloquium and Brad Efron's lecture on "Bootstrap Basics" are already linked to this web page.

February 22:
PRACTICAL STATISTICS
CHI-SQUARED and GOODNESS OF FIT
Basic idea.
Error estimates.
Several parameters
Correlated errors on y.
Errors on x and y.
Goodness of fit. Degrees of freedom. Why assymptotic?
Errors of first kind and second kind.
THE paradox
Kinematic fits. Toy example.