Lecture 15. Examples of Bayesian approach

Statistical Data Analysis

Dmitry V. Naumov (JINR)

Draft Outline

• TODO: priors, posteriors, and credible intervals
• TODO: Bayesian model comparison
• TODO: examples from HEP and astroparticle analyses

Exercises

Exercise

Show that the likelihood for a Poisson count \(n\) with expectation \(\mu\) is \[ L(\mu)=\frac{\mu^n e^{-\mu}}{n!}. \]