Simplified Run 2 Analysis

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What is this lesson about?

Welcome. In this lesson you will:

• Learn how to connect everything you have learned so far in order to exercise a full (or almost full) analysis example
• Learn how to implement the most usual ingredients of an analysis and the construct an analysis chain
  • Select subsets of the data and Monte Carlo that are aimed at maximizing the significance of your signal
• Be able to produce plots to show the results
• Learn about estimating systematics and statistical aspects of the analysis
• Use all of this to measure some physical quanity and estimate the uncertainties on your measurement

Prerequisites

To follow this lesson you need to start the python tools Docker container from the pre-exercises:

If you have already successfully installed and run the Docker example with python tools, then you need only execute the following command.

docker start -i my_python  #give the name of your container

If this doesn’t work, return to the python tools Docker container lesson to work through how to start the container.