{
  "id": 16021,
  "title": "I am still not clear what are we supposed to find. Kindly Clear my confusion. ",
  "url": "/competitions/flavours-of-physics/discussion/16021",
  "author_name": "",
  "post_date": "2015-08-19T08:23:40.337Z",
  "votes": null,
  "comment_count": 1,
  "views": 722,
  "content": "<p>Hi Forum admin, </p>\n\n<p>From what i understand, The Signal Data in the Training Set only consists of 0 and 1 \n(the label &#8216;signal&#8217; being &#8216;1&#8217; for signal events, &#8216;0&#8217; for background events)</p>\n\n<p>The Training set definition says </p>\n\n<p>signal - This is the target variable for you to predict in the test samples.</p>\n\n<p>Does the Signal of 1 specify release of 3 muons due to tua decay ? or the otherway round ? </p>\n\n<p>Since The below statement is what we are supposed to find. </p>\n\n<p>&quot;In this competition, you are given a list of collision events and their properties. You will then predict whether a &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; decay happened in this collision. This &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; is currently assumed by scientists not to happen, and the goal of this competition is to discover &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; happening more frequently than scientists currently can understand.&quot;</p>\n\n<p>So i am confused probably i am pretty new to this so can somebody clear the confusion. as to what are we supposed to find.</p>\n\n<p>or are we only supposed to predict the signal and hand over the results to you guys  ? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks \nAnish T.</p>",
  "messages": [
    {
      "id": "89766",
      "postDate": "08/19/2015 08:23:40",
      "content": "<p>Hi Forum admin, </p>\n\n<p>From what i understand, The Signal Data in the Training Set only consists of 0 and 1 \n(the label &#8216;signal&#8217; being &#8216;1&#8217; for signal events, &#8216;0&#8217; for background events)</p>\n\n<p>The Training set definition says </p>\n\n<p>signal - This is the target variable for you to predict in the test samples.</p>\n\n<p>Does the Signal of 1 specify release of 3 muons due to tua decay ? or the otherway round ? </p>\n\n<p>Since The below statement is what we are supposed to find. </p>\n\n<p>&quot;In this competition, you are given a list of collision events and their properties. You will then predict whether a &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; decay happened in this collision. This &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; is currently assumed by scientists not to happen, and the goal of this competition is to discover &#964; &#8594; 3&#956; happening more frequently than scientists currently can understand.&quot;</p>\n\n<p>So i am confused probably i am pretty new to this so can somebody clear the confusion. as to what are we supposed to find.</p>\n\n<p>or are we only supposed to predict the signal and hand over the results to you guys  ? </p>\n\n<p>Thanks \nAnish T.</p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Forum admin, \r\n\r\nFrom what i understand, The Signal Data in the Training Set only consists of 0 and 1 \r\n(the label ‘signal’ being ‘1’ for signal events, ‘0’ for background events)\r\n\r\nThe Training set definition says \r\n\r\nsignal - This is the target variable for you to predict in the test samples.\r\n\r\nDoes the Signal of 1 specify release of 3 muons due to tua decay ? or the otherway round ? \r\n\r\nSince The below statement is what we are supposed to find. \r\n\r\n\"In this competition, you are given a list of collision events and their properties. You will then predict whether a τ → 3μ decay happened in this collision. This τ → 3μ is currently assumed by scientists not to happen, and the goal of this competition is to discover τ → 3μ happening more frequently than scientists currently can understand.\"\r\n \r\nSo i am confused probably i am pretty new to this so can somebody clear the confusion. as to what are we supposed to find.\r\n\r\nor are we only supposed to predict the signal and hand over the results to you guys  ? \r\n\r\n\r\nThanks \r\nAnish T.",
      "votes": null
    },
    {
      "id": "90040",
      "postDate": "08/21/2015 20:31:29",
      "content": "<p>Hi Anish,</p>\n\n<p>you are right - just predict the signal. Also, make sure you have read this explanation: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation</a> and then read evaluation criteria for the competition (weighted ROC AUC). </p>",
      "rawMarkdown": "Hi Anish,\r\n\r\nyou are right - just predict the signal. Also, make sure you have read this explanation: https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation and then read evaluation criteria for the competition (weighted ROC AUC).",
      "votes": null
    }
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  "comments": [
    {
      "id": 90040,
      "author_name": "anaderi",
      "author_url": "",
      "post_date": "08/21/2015 20:31:29",
      "content": "<p>Hi Anish,</p>\n\n<p>you are right - just predict the signal. Also, make sure you have read this explanation: <a href=\"https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation\">https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation</a> and then read evaluation criteria for the competition (weighted ROC AUC). </p>",
      "votes": null,
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    "89766": "Hi Forum admin, \r\n\r\nFrom what i understand, The Signal Data in the Training Set only consists of 0 and 1 \r\n(the label ‘signal’ being ‘1’ for signal events, ‘0’ for background events)\r\n\r\nThe Training set definition says \r\n\r\nsignal - This is the target variable for you to predict in the test samples.\r\n\r\nDoes the Signal of 1 specify release of 3 muons due to tua decay ? or the otherway round ? \r\n\r\nSince The below statement is what we are supposed to find. \r\n\r\n\"In this competition, you are given a list of collision events and their properties. You will then predict whether a τ → 3μ decay happened in this collision. This τ → 3μ is currently assumed by scientists not to happen, and the goal of this competition is to discover τ → 3μ happening more frequently than scientists currently can understand.\"\r\n \r\nSo i am confused probably i am pretty new to this so can somebody clear the confusion. as to what are we supposed to find.\r\n\r\nor are we only supposed to predict the signal and hand over the results to you guys  ? \r\n\r\n\r\nThanks \r\nAnish T.",
    "90040": "Hi Anish,\r\n\r\nyou are right - just predict the signal. Also, make sure you have read this explanation: https://www.kaggle.com/c/flavours-of-physics/forums/t/15974/machine-learning-approach-in-high-energy-physics-explanation and then read evaluation criteria for the competition (weighted ROC AUC)."
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