3 papers
hep-ex2026
IRIS-HEP 2026 Statistical Ecosystem Blueprint White Paper
Matthew Feickert, Massimiliano Galli
This white paper presents the current status of the ecosystem of statistical tools used in High Energy Physics (HEP), and attempts to summarize the views on the future R&D directio…
hep-ex2026
Status and Prospects of the HEP Statistical Inference Ecosystem
Massimiliano Galli
Statistical inference is a crucial part of HEP analyses. Historically based on RooFit and RooStats, the statistical tools used by the experiments are now facing unprecedented chall…
hep-ex2026
Recent benchmarks in the Analysis Grand Challenge and integration with Combine (and HS3)
Peter Fackeldey, Massimiliano Galli, Hannah Havel +4
The Analysis Grand Challenge (AGC) showcases an example of HEP analysis. Its reference implementation uses modern Python packages to realize the main steps, from data access to sta…