Workshop
on Confidence Limits
27-28 March, 2000
Fermilab
1-West Conference Room
|
Final Program with Copies of Slides
[ as of 26-Mar-2000
]
- All
sessions take place in the 1-West conference room of
on the ground floor of Wilson Hall.
- TBA:
to be announced
- All copies
are in PDF or Postscript formats unless otherwise stated
Monday March 27, 2000
| 8:30
|
Registration materials pickup (East side opposite
of 1-West conference room due to art display) |
| 9:00
|
Welcome from Mike Witherell, Fermilab Director
|
| 9:10 |
First
session, chairman: Gary Feldman |
| 9:10 |
Louis Lyons
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Review of CERN Workshop |
| 10:00 |
Fred James
|
How to choose foundations |
| 10:30 |
Coffee
break |
| 11:00 |
Second
session, chairman: John Womersley |
| 11:00 |
Harrison Prosper
|
The Revd Bayes and solar neutrinos,
(copy in PowerPoint PPT format). |
| 11:45 |
Jim Berger
|
Convergence of objective Bayesian and frequentist
methodology for confidence limits, (3 missing plots
are in Glen Cowan's talk, pages 7-9).
|
| 12:45 |
Lunch
|
| 14:00 |
Third
session, chairman: Al Goshaw |
| 14:00 |
Jim Linnemann
|
Sensitivity of Bayesian upper limits to signal
and nuisance priors.
|
| 14:45 |
Mark Kruse
|
Incorporating systematic uncertainties in
confidence limits
|
| 15:05 |
Kaori Maeshima
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Setting limits in CDF particle searches
|
| 15:25 |
Fred James
|
Reply (No copy available)
|
| 15:40 |
Coffee
break |
| 16:10 |
Fourth
session, chairman: Mike Albrow |
| 16:10 |
Bill Murray
|
CL_s and LEP Higgs search,
(PPT file has correct plots), Tom Junk's slides
available in PostScript format.
|
| 17:00 |
Rajendran Raja
|
Limits and errors on limits
|
| 17:20 |
Ilya Narsky
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Comparison of upper limits
|
| 17:40 |
End
of afternoon sessions |
| 19:00 |
Casual Workshop
dinner |
|
Tuesday March 28,
2000
| 9:00 |
Fifth
session, chairman: Mike Shaevitz |
| 9:00 |
Bob Cousins
|
Comments on the likelihood-ratio ordering for
confidence intervals
and on other methods (Original slides not available, refer to CERN
writeup and
new writeup)
|
| 9:55 |
Wolfgang Rolke
|
Confidence intervals and upper bounds for small
signals in the presence of noise
|
| 10:20 |
Mark Messier
|
Super-K and Feldman-Cousins, (Slides are in order
in directory listing).
|
| 10:40 |
Tom Kafka
|
Atmospheric neutrino interactions in Soudan 2:
A Feldman-Cousins case study, (a complete black and white version
is also available)
|
| 11:00 |
Coffee
break |
| 11:30 |
Sixth
session, chairman: Harry Cheung |
| 11:30 |
Richard Schnee
|
CDMS limits and compatibility with DAMA
|
| 11:55 |
Steve Yellin
|
Finding an upper limit in the presence of unknown
background, also see Yellin's WEB
page
|
| 12:20 |
Byron Roe
|
Search for a confidence limit methodology,
(Other plots: Slide 8.5,
Slide 19.3,
Slide 19.6,
Slide 19.9,
Slide 24.5). A
scanned version is also available
|
| 13:00 |
Lunch
break |
| 14:00 |
Seventh
session, chairman: Fred James |
| 14:00 |
Gary Feldman
|
Multiple measurements and parameters in the
unified approach
|
| 14:35 |
Bill Murray
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Combination of limits at CERN
|
| 14:55 |
Herb Greenlee
|
Combining CDF and D0, (Also available in PowerPoint PPT
format).
|
| 15:15 |
Glen Cowan
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Workshop Summary
|
| 15:45 |
End
of workshop |
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Comments to
Harry
W.K. Cheung - Last modified on
26-Mar-2000
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