Signal and Background Separation Papers


A.L. Read
Date:2000
Modified Frequentist Analysis of Search Results (The CLs Method)
Proceedings of the Workshop on confidence limits, CERN Report 2000-05, p. 81, (2000).

R. Vilalta, P. Sarda, G. Mutchler, B.P. Padley and S. Taylor
Date:2005
Signal Enhancement Using Multivariate Classification Techniques and Physical Constraints
Proceedings of PHYSTAT 2005, (2005)

I. Narsky
Date: 2005
Optimization of Signal Significance by Bagging Decision Trees
Proceedings of PHYSTAT 2005, (2005)

Bruce Knuteson
Date: 2005
The Quaero Algorithm

Kyle S. Cranmer
Date: 2007
Statistics for the LHC: Progress, Challenges, and Future
Proceedings of PHYSTAT 2007, p.47, (2007).

Hai-Jun Yang, Byron P. Roe and Ji Zhu
Date: 2007
Studies of stability and robustness for artificial neural networks and boosted decision trees
Nucl. Instrum. Methods A574, 342, (2007).

Hai-Jun Yang, Byron P. Roe and Ji Zhu
Date: 2007
Boosted Decision Trees, a powerful event classifier
Proceedings of PHYSTAT 2005, (2005)