Welcome to the RooStats Wiki

What is RooStats?

This is a wiki for RooStats development. RooStats is a project to create statistical tools built on top of RooFit and distributed in ROOT. It is a joint project between the LHC experiments and the ROOT team. There is an draft users guide, which is under development (currently 38 pages).

How to get it?

All you need is the latest ROOT release. The code is developing quickly, so you may need to Download and Install the RooStats Branch

Organization

The RooStats project has an oversight committee formed by the heads of the ATLAS and CMS statistics forums. Through several joint ATLAS-CMS statistics meetings we have converged on a structure in which the oversight committee sets goals and priorities for tool development (at a high level), adjudicates any conflicts that might arise, and helps find manpower if needed. The development of RooStats is open in nature, with four core developers:

• Kyle Cranmer representing ATLAS
• Gregory Schott representing CMS
• Lorenzo Moneta representing ROOT
• Wouter Verkerke representing RooFit (on which RooStats is based)

These core developers have access to ROOT's SVN repository.

Resources

• The current version of RooStats user's guide is link points to document in svn
• NEW 138 slides of documentation for french School of Statistics, May 2010: RooStats SOS 2010
• ~200 slides of documentation on RooStats for french School of Statistics, 2008: RooFit SOS 2008
• mailing list: roostats-development -at- cern.ch is hosted via SIMBA2: https://websvc03.cern.ch/listboxservices/
• RooFit User's Guide
• RooStats User's Guide under development
• RooFit Tutorials
• RooStats Tutorials
• RooFit Code Documentation
• RooStats Code Documentation
• ROOT's Stat and Math tools forum
• Link to SVN branch
• Version 5.23 release notes
• Initial RooStatsKarlsuhe package (deprecated) * ROOT release notes: 5.22, 5.21/6

Talks, meetings, and more information

• Some validation work for well studied problems by Adi Ashkenazi, Renaud Bruneliere, Riccardo Bianchi
• Status of RooStats Fall 2009
• Status of RooStats Summer 2009 (production release 5.24)
• April 30, 2009 Presentation about Neyman Construction & Feldman-Cousins

• April 30, 2009 Bernstein Correction presentation
• Kyle's early RooStats talk at ROOT 2007 Workshop
• First ATLAS/CMS meeting: Friday June 29, 5PM, right after PHYSTAT
• PHYSTAT LHC Writeup, Kyle's PhyStat talk with a little RooStats, Wouter's PhyStat talk, Lorenzo's PhyStat talk
• RooStats in CERN courier
• ATLAS/CMS July 17, 2007
• Wouter's 2007 BaBar talk
• ATLAS/CMS September 4, 2007
• ATLAS/CMS February 29, 2008
• ATLAS/CMS July 29, 2008
• ATLAS/CMS Sept 25, 2008
• HiggsWGRooStatsCms
• OriginalTwikiLinks

-- KyleCranmer - 07 May 2009