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| TABLE OF CONTENTS | ||
| Conference Introduction. | ps pdf | L.Lyons |
| Overview of Principles of Statistics. | ps pdf | F.James |
| LIMITS, INTERVALS AND SIGNALS | ||
| Presentation of Search Results - the CL_s Technique. | ps pdf | A.L.Read |
| Difficulties in Limit Setting and the Strong Confidence Approach. | ps pdf | G.Punzi |
| Statistics Issues for the Mini-BooNE Experiment. | ps pdf | B.P.Roe and M.Woodroofe |
| Confidence Limits and their Robustness. | ps pdf | R.Raja |
| Bias-Corrected Confidence Intervals for Rare Searches. | ps pdf | W.A.Rolke and A.M.L\'{o}pez |
| The Power of Confidence Intervals. | ps pdf | C.Giunti and M Laveder |
| Credibility of Confidence Intervals. | ps pdf | D.Karlen |
| Coverage of Confidence Intervals for Poisson Statistics in Presence of Systematic Uncertainties. | ps pdf | J.Conrad, O.Botner, A.Hallgreen and C.P.de los Heros |
| Signal Significance in Particle Physics. | ps pdf | P.K.Sinervo |
| Uncertainties and Discovery Potential in Planned Experiments. | ps pdf | S.Bityukov and N.Krasnikov |
| Statistical Issues in Dark Matter Selection. | ps pdf | D.R.Tovey and N.J.T.Smith |
| MULTIVARIATE METHODS | ||
| Multivariate Methods: A Unified Perspective. | ps pdf | H.B.Prosper |
| Multidimensional Event Classification in Images from Gamma-Ray Air Showers. | ps pdf | R.K.Bock and W.Wittek |
| Kernel Probability Density Estimation Methods. | ps pdf | S.Towers |
| Benefits of Minimizing the Number of Discriminators Used in a Multivariate Analysis. | ps pdf | S.Towers |
| Support Vector Machines in Analysis of Top Quark Production. | ps pdf | A.Vaiciulis |
| Application of Neural Networks Optimized by Genetic Algorithms to Higgs Boson Search. | ps pdf | F.Hakl, M.Hlavacek and R.Kalous |
| Measurement of Physical Quantities in the Bayesian Framework using Neural Networks. | ps pdf | M.Wolter |
| SYSTEMATICS | ||
| Systematic Errors: Facts and Fictions. | ps pdf | R.Barlow |
| Baysian Treatments of Systematic Uncertainties. | ps pdf | L.Demortier |
| An Application of the Strong Confidence to the CHOOZ Experiment with Frequentist Inclusion of Systematics. | ps pdf | D.Nicolo nd G.Signorelli |
| Using Some ``Prior'' when there is no Prior. | ps pdf | G.Kahrimanis |
| GOODNESS OF FIT | ||
| The Relation of Goodness of Fit to Confidence Intervals. | ps pdf | F.James |
| Comparison of Different Goodness-of-Fit Tests. | ps pdf | B.Aslan and G.Zech |
| Evaluating Quality of Fit in Unbinned Maximum Likelihood Fitting. | ps pdf | K.Kinoshita |
| Detecting unknown systematic effects: Diagnosis of a Bad Fit to Multiple Data Sets. | ps pdf | M.J.Wang |
| PARTONS | ||
| Uncertainties in parton related quantities. | ps pdf | R.S.Thorne |
| Uncertainties on Parton Distribution Functions from the ZEUS NLO QCD Fit to Data on Deep Inelastic Scattering. | ps pdf | A.M.Cooper-Sarkar |
| Questions on Uncertainties in Parton Distributions. | ps pdf | R.S.Thorne, H B\"ottcher,A.M.Cooper-Sarkar, B.Reisert, V.Shekelyan, W.J.Stirling, D.R.Stump and A.Vogt |
| FROM THE TRENCHES | ||
| Practicalities of Combining Analyses: W Physics Results at LEP | ps pdf | C.Parkes |
| Statistical Practice at the BELLE Experiment, and Some Questions. | ps pdf | B.Yabsley |
| How to Include the Information from the $B^0_s$-$\bar{B^0_s}$ Oscillation Frequency in the CKM fits. | ps pdf | F.Parodi, P.Roudeau, A.Stocchi and A.Villa |
| Application of Bayes' Theorem to Muon Track Reconstruction in AMANDA. | ps pdf | T.DeYoung and G.C.Hill |
| Advanced Statistical Techniques in Muon G-2 Experiment at BNL. | ps pdf | S.I.Redin |
| MATRIX METHODS | ||
| A Survey of Unfolding Methods for Particle Physics. | ps pdf | G.Cowan |
| An Unfolding Method for High Energy Physics Experiments. | ps pdf | V.Blobel |
| A New Method for the High-Precision Alignment of Track Detectors. | ps pdf | V.Blobel and C.Kleinwort |
| MISCELLANEOUS | ||
| Blind Analysis. | ps pdf | P.F.Harrison |
| Monte Carlo Unifying Frequentist and Bayesian interference. | ps pdf | N.Kjaer |
| Comments on a Paper by Garzelli and Giunti. | ps pdf | F.James |
| Answers to Fred James' paper "Comments on a Paper by Garzelli and Giunti". | ps pdf | C.Giunti |
| CONCLUSIONS | ||
| Why be a Bayesian? | ps pdf | M.Goldstein |
| Conference Summary Talk. | ps pdf | R.Cousins |
| APPENDICES | ||
| A Glossary of Selected Statistiscal Terms. | ps pdf | H.B.Prosper, J.T.Linneman and W.A.Rolke |
| Acknowledgements. | ps pdf | |
| List of Participants. | ps pdf | |
| Conference Photograph. | ps pdf | |