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# Maximum Likelihood Fitting. | # Maximum Likelihood Fitting. | ||
## A short note by Curtis A. Meyer on maximum [http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=666 Likelihood Fitting]. | ## A short note by Curtis A. Meyer on maximum [http://argus.phys.uregina.ca/cgi-bin/private/DocDB/ShowDocument?docid=666 Likelihood Fitting]. | ||
− | # | + | #* M. Williams, <i>How good are your fits? Unbinned multivariate goodness-of-fit tests in high energy physics</i>, JINST <b>5</b> P09004 (2010). Link to the [http://iopscience.iop.org/1748-0221/5/09/P09004 JINST] server, also a link to the [http://arxiv.org/abs/1006.3019 arXiv] server for this article. |
− | + | #* Note by R. Jones -- for an illustration of the failure of using the maximum likelihood value, and its agreement with the values from MC samples of similar size, as a criterion for goodness of fit, see Appendix A in the above paper. This simple example was an eye-opener for me! | |
− | + | # Photon polarization in PWA | |
− | + | #* [http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/halld/polarimetry/precision/ Record of a past discussion of precision requirements for polarimetry in Hall D] | |
− | * [http://zeus.phys.uconn.edu/halld/polarimetry/precision/ Record of a past discussion of precision requirements for polarimetry in Hall D] | + |
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Agenda
- addressing reconstruction issues...
- physics analyses
- Analysis of b1pi at UConn: First PWA fits (Igor Senderovich)
- Simulations of cascade baryons (Nathan Sparks)
Minutes
- Maximum Likelihood Fitting.
- A short note by Curtis A. Meyer on maximum Likelihood Fitting.
- M. Williams, How good are your fits? Unbinned multivariate goodness-of-fit tests in high energy physics, JINST 5 P09004 (2010). Link to the JINST server, also a link to the arXiv server for this article.
- Note by R. Jones -- for an illustration of the failure of using the maximum likelihood value, and its agreement with the values from MC samples of similar size, as a criterion for goodness of fit, see Appendix A in the above paper. This simple example was an eye-opener for me!
- Photon polarization in PWA