Statistics

To give a theoretical and practical understanding of the statistical principles involved with radiation detectors.

Course Description

Topics: Experimental errors; random and systematic errors; distributions, mean, variance; combining errors. Probability and Statistics: probability, rules of probability; statistics. Distributions; Binomial, Poisson, Gaussian, Error Matrix. Parameter Fitting; least squares, hypothesis testing; c2 analysis t-test. Monte Carlo Methods; introduction, simple examples. Quality assurance: introduction, simple examples.