Publications (15)
Study of rare and hadronic B decays in BABAR
Luca Lista
We present results from BABAR experiment for the measurement of inclusive and exclusive branching fractions of B mesons into final states containing , and . Th…
Combination of measurements and the BLUE method
Luca Lista
The most accurate method to combine measurement from different experiments is to build a combined likelihood function and use it to perform the desired inference. This is not alway…
Review of Recent BaBar Results
Luca Lista
We present a review of recent results from BaBar experiment. BaBar detector has collected about 256 millions of events at PEP-II, the asymmetric collider located…
Managing Many Simultaneous Systematic Uncertainties
Luca Lista, Agostino De Iorio, Alberto Orso Maria Iorio
Recent statistical evaluations for High-Energy Physics measurements, in particular those at the Large Hadron Collider, require careful evaluation of many sources of systematic unce…
A statistical model to identify excess mortality in Italy in the period 2011-2022
Antonino Bella, Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista +7
Excess mortality is defined as an increase in the number of deaths above what is expected based on historical trends, hereafter called baseline. In a previous paper, we introduced…
Including gaussian uncertainty on the background estimate for upper limit calculations using Poissonian sampling
Luca Lista
A procedure to include the uncertainty on the background estimate for upper limit calculations using Poissonian sampling is presented for the case where a Gaussian assumption on th…
Top quark measurements in the CMS experiment
Luca Lista
Experimental results on top-quark physics obtained at the CMS experiment are reported based on the data recorded at centre-of-mass energy up to 13 TeV. Inclusive and differential c…
A simple numeric algorithm for ancient coin dies identification
Luca Lista
A simple computer-based algorithm has been developed to identify pre-modern coins minted from the same dies, intending mainly coins minted by hand-made dies designed to be applicab…
Top quark production at ATLAS and CMS
Luca Lista
A review of the main recent results on top quark production from the ATLAS and CMS experiments is presented. Results on both electroweak single top quark production and strong top…
The bias of the unbiased estimator: a study of the iterative application of the BLUE method
Luca Lista
The best linear unbiased estimator (BLUE) is a popular statistical method adopted to combine multiple measurements of the same observable taking into account individual uncertainti…
A study on the possible merits of using symptomatic cases to trace the development of the COVID-19 pandemic
Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce +4
In a recent work we introduced a novel method to compute the effective reproduction number and we applied it to describe the development of the COVID-19 outbreak in Italy. Th…
A statistical analysis of death rates in Italy for the years 2015-2020 and a comparison with the casualties reported for the COVID-19 pandemic
Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce +5
We analyze the data about casualties in Italy in the period 01/01/2015 to 30/09/2020 released by the Italian National Institute of Statistics (ISTAT). The data exhibit a clear sinu…
Practical Statistics for Particle Physicists
Luca Lista
These three lectures provide an introduction to the main concepts of statistical data analysis useful for precision measurements and searches for new signals in High Energy Physics…
A simplified estimate of the Effective Reproduction Number using its relation with the doubling time and application to Italian COVID-19 data
Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce +4
A simplified method to compute , the Effective Reproduction Number, is presented. The method relates the value of to the estimation of the doubling time performed with a…
Study on the effects of the restrictive measures for containment of the COVID-19 pandemic on the reproduction number in Italian regions
Gianluca Bonifazi, Luca Lista, Dario Menasce +4
Since November 6, 2020, Italian regions have been classified according to four levels, corresponding to specific risk scenarios, for which specific restrictive meas…