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AutoDQM is a statistical tool for Data Quality Management (DQM) at the Large Hadron Particle Collider.
Before AutoDQM, DQM shifters were tasked with looking at hundreds of DQM histograms, looking for hard-to-spot issues in data collection. AutoDQM runs long established statistical tests using ROOT on these graphs and outputs outliers on a simple, but effective, GUI that expedites the shifters' task.
AutoDQM uses a variety of long-established statistical tests to determine how similar a "data" run is to a reference run selected by the DQM shifter.
For 2D histograms AutoDQM goes bin-by-bin through both the data and reference histograms, then plots the difference between each corresponding bin onto a new, identical histogram, taking proper Poisson errors into account. The equation for this calculation is fairly simple:
where "x" is the bin value and epsilon is the error of that bin value. The code for this can be found here.
The Kolmogorov-Smirnov test compares the distance between points on a sample distribution and some reference distribution and qualifies how close or far they are. It is too complex to discuss here, but Wikipedia has a good article on it.
Here, Run 301531 was taken as the 'data' run with Run 300811 as the reference. AutoDQM outputted more readable graphs with clear indications that there are some dead cells.