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I have attempted a derivation of the Students t-distribution probability distribution function in the attached pdf. I defined T to be Z/sqrt(W/v) where Z has standard normal distrubution and W has chi squared distribution with v degrees of freedom. I know that Z and W need to be independent, but...

ok that makes sense, thanks again. What I wanted to do with this statistics project was to construct a confidence interval for the mean of the z boson mass. Is there any method to determine which of the events are background events? If i neglect the low masses as you said, will the rest of the...

ok, I adjusted for the minus sign and the results do indeed give the mass in the final column. Thanks for the help. The mean of all of the masses is 74.67 Gev/c^2 with a standard deviation of 27.14. Could you explain why the mean isn't closer to the actual boson mass. I figured the mean would be...

Thanks to everyone for the help. I tried to use the equation for mz to calculate the mass. However, I observed a lot of variation and I got a mean around 143 GeV/c^2. I know that the actual mass of the Z boson is around 91 Gev/c^2, so I believe that I must have done something wrong. I used the...

You could try to solve this problem using Karnaugh maps. Here is a google result I found: http://sce.umkc.edu/~hieberm/281_new/lectures/simplification/simplification.html. Example 1 may be of help.

Excellent, that is very helpful. Thanks. In addition, for my statistics project I need to construct a confidence interval in one part of the project. Using the given data, do you have any ideas of a physical quantity I can construct the confidence interval from (such as mass). For example, is...

Could someone please tell me what the symbols in the Zee.csv file mean on the CERN webpage (https://cms-docdb.cern.ch/cgi-bin/PublicDocDB/ShowDocument?docid=11581)? I am doing a project for my statistics class and that information would be useful. I'll appreciate any and all help.