Advanced Methods for Data Analysis

Wydział Fizyki, Astronomii i Informatyki Stosowanej,

Uniwersytet Jagielloński  w Krakowie


Rok akademicki 2026/2027



Konsultacje: sroda, godz. 8:00 - 10:00; pokój G-0-10.


Exam: 
28.01.2027, 9am-11am, A-1-03          
            29.01.2027,  9am-11am,  A-1-03

Lectures

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Recommended books/articles for reading:

=> G. Cowan, "Statistical Data Analysis"
      https://www.pp.rhul.ac.uk/~cowan/stat_course.html
      recorded lectures at CERN Summer School 2023: link
                                                                         2025: link
=> F. James, "Statistical Methods in Experimental Physics"
=> J. Narsky, F. Porter, "Statistical Analysis Techniques in Particle Physics"
=> J. A.Rice, "Mathematical Statistics and Data Analysis"
=> I. Narsky, F. C. Porter, "Statistical Analysis Techniques in Particle Physics"

=> K. Cranmer, "Practical statistics for LHC"
=> A. Segura and A. Catalin-Parra, 
"A Practical Guide to Statistical Techniques in Particle Physics"
      https://arxiv.org/pdf/2411.00706

Recent conferences and workshops:


=> Terascale Statistics School 2026

=> PHYSTAT (2026): Statistics meets Machine Learning

=> PHYSTAT Workshops and Schools

Date

Lecture slides
Additional material


Statistics and Data Analysis: Basics

6.10.2026
Introduction  
StatAnal-lecture-1

 13.10.2026

StatAnal-lecture-2
20.10.2026

StatAnal-lecture-3
27.10.2026
StatAnal-lecture-4


Statistics and Data Analysis: Advanced Statistical methods for LHC (advanced)
3.11.2026


10.11.2026

LHCStatAnal-lecture-1


https://arxiv.org/pdf/1007.1727.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1609.04150.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1807.05996.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2101.06944.pdf
HistFactory
Pyhf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2109.04981.pdf
17.11.2026
LHCStatAnal-lecture-2
24.11.2026
LHCStatAnal-lecture-3


Statistics and Data Analysis:  Questions for exam

 
 BELOW  NOT UPDATED YET  BELOW  NOT UPDATED YET


 Multivariate Techniques and Machine Learning

1.12.2026

Unfolding-lecture            

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1910.14654.pdf
F. Spano-Proc14-02/P52.pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1611.01927.pdf

8.12.2026
MVandML-lecture-1          
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1506.02169.pdf
P.Bhat, Multivariate_Analysis_Methods_in_Particle_Physics
Understanding Deep Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1806.11484.pdf
ML4Jets 2024 workshop
https://atlas.cern/Updates/Feature/Machine-Learning
15.12.2026
MVandML-lecture-2

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/
10.1088/1748-0221/11/01/P01019/pdf
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1812.09722.pdf
ATL-PHYS-PUB-2019-033.pdf
ATL-PHYS-PUB-2020-018.pdf
GNN in ATLAS flavour tagging


MV and ML: Questions for exam







Physics Modeling, Simulation and Monte Carlo Methods
12.01.2027
PhysModelandSimul-lecture
https://www.coursera.org/learn/
modeling-simulation-natural-processes

The XII Gean4 International School 2024
 19.01.2027

MCandGenerators-lecture Introduction to MC methods for HEP
https://rivet.hepforge.org/
26.01.2027
Simulation based inference
https://arxiv.org/pdf/1911.01429
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2010.06439
    
1st PhyStat School of Statistics (2025): Statistics in the era of ML
https://indico.cern.ch/event/1537633/timetable/#all

Aachen Online Statistics School 2023
https://indico.desy.de/event/37562/timetable/

Statistical Analysis in HEP Physics

N. Berger, 
Foundation of Statistics, Lectures at CERN Summer School 2019
link1, link2, link3

Statistics and Data Science

K. Cranmer, Course at NYU Physics,  Fall 2020, link

Machine learning applications in HEP physics:

B. Nachman,

"Advanced Machine Learning for Classification, Regression, and Generation in Jet Physics
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M. Stoye,

"ML applications in CMS"

ML techniques in HEP,  Workshop, Berkeley Laboratory, 11 - 13 December 2018
https://indico.physics.lbl.gov/indico/event/546/

A. Castaneda,
LHCP conference, Puebla, Mexico, 2019
ML and Big data tools at HEP,

Last part of the course will be based on the materials from Coursera: 


Dr. Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel    
"Data Analysis and Statistical Inference"
C. Guestrin and E. Fox, "Machine Learning Specialisation"
        Foundation: link
        Regression: link
        Classification: link
        Clustering and Retrieval: link

Related interesting material from Coursera
D. Peng, J. Leek and B. Caffo, " Exploratory Data Analysis"
J. Leskovec, A. Rajaraman and J. Ullman, "Mining Massive Datasets"
B. Caffo, R. D. Peng and J. Leek, "Regression Models"
B. Chopard et al., "Simulation and modeling of natural processes"

Collection of datasets

http://mlr.cs.umass.edu/ml/datasets.html
http://faculty.marshall.usc.edu/gareth-james/ISL/data.html
http://snap.stanford.edu/data/amazon/


Useful links:
https://turi.com/download/install-graphlab-create-aws-coursera.html
https://turi.com/download/academic.html
https://github.com/turi-code/SFrame

Clustering
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_extraction.text.CountVectorizer.html
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.feature_extraction.text.TfidfVectorizer.html

Boosting
https://turi.com/learn/userguide/supervised-learning/boosted_trees_classifier.html
https://homes.cs.washington.edu/~tqchen/pdf/BoostedTree.pdf
http://scikit-learn.org/stable/modules/generated/sklearn.ensemble.GradientBoostingClassifier.html
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[1] https://class.coursera.org/statistics
[2] http://www.openintro.org/stat/textbook.php
[3] https://class.coursera.org/exdata-006
[4] https://class.coursera.org/mmds
[5]
http://www.mmds.org/
[6] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~awm/tutorials.html

Additional materials
http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~cshalizi/ADAfaEPoV/ADAfaEPoV.pdf
http://statweb.stanford.edu/~tibs/ElemStatLearn/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determining_the_number_of_clusters_in_a_data_set
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQhVWUcXM0A


Ostatnia modyfikacja: 6 October  2026

Elzbieta Richter-Was


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