Rockefeller University

Technical Reports

(Only documents that are not restricted by CDF or CMS can be downloaded.)

On Statistics:
1. Testing Hypotheses in Particle Physics: Plots of p₀ versus p₁, November 2014 (with Louis Lyons).
2. Reply to "Comment on 'Reference Priors for High Energy Physics'", December 2011 (with Supriya Jain and Harrison Prosper); published as Phys. Rev. D 84, 118502.
3. Reference priors for high energy physics, July 2010 (with Supriya Jain and Harrison Prosper); published as Phys. Rev. D 82, 034002.
4. Error estimates for the bin contents of a convolution histogram, February 2010 (with Luca Lista).
5. Search procedures in high energy physics, report prepared for O-Bayes09, the Seventh International Workshop on Objective Bayes Methodology, Philadelphia, USA, June 5-9, 2009.
6. Some statistical issues in the measurement of the top quark charge, CDF note 9426, August 2008.
7. Simple facts about p-values, CDF note 8023, January 2006 (with Craig Blocker et al.)
8. Objective Bayesian upper limits for Poisson processes, CDF note 5928, June 2005.
9. A convolution method for folding systematic uncertainties into likelihood functions, CDF note 5305, June 2005.
10. Recommendations concerning limits, CDF note 7739, May 2005 (with Craig Blocker et al.)
11. Interval estimation in the presence of nuisance parameters. 1. Bayesian approach. arXiv:physics/0409129 v1, 27 September 2004 (with Joel Heinrich et al.)
12. Everything you always wanted to know about pulls, CDF note 5776, August 2002 (with Louis Lyons).
13. Combining the top quark mass results for Run 1 from CDF and D0, Fermilab report no. FERMILAB-TM-2084, September 1999 (with the Top Averaging Group).
14. Equivalence of the best-fit and covariance-matrix methods for comparing binned data with a model in the presence of correlated systematic uncertainties, CDF note 8661, April 1999.
15. Assessing the significance of a deviation in the tail of a distribution, CDF note 3419, November 1995.
On Physics:
1. Measurement of the top quark mass using the template method in the lepton plus jets channel with in situ W->jj calibration at CDF-II, CDF note 7680, October 2005 (with the CDF collaboration).
2. Updated top quark mass measurement in the lepton+jets channel using the jet probability algorithm, CDF note 7637, May 2005 (with the CDF collaboration).
3. Search for W-pair production using jet charge, charged track multiplicity and charm jet tagging, CDF note 5935, February 2003 (with Hideaki Takano et al.).
4. Search for single-top production with CDF, CDF note 5477, November 2000 (with Toshiaki Kikuchi et al.).
5. Combining the top quark mass results for Run 1 from CDF and D0, Fermilab report no. FERMILAB-TM-2084, September 1999 (with the Top Averaging Group).

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