Because the emphasis of the LHC is on 5 sigma discoveries and the LHC
environment induces high systematic errors, many of the common statistical
procedures used in High Energy Physics are not adequate. I review the basic
ingredients of LHC searches, the sources of systematics, and the performance of
several methods. Finally, I indicate the methods that seem most promising for
the LHC and areas that are in need of further study.Comment: 12 pages, 7 figures, proceedings of PhyStat2005, Oxford. To be
published by Imperial College Press. See
http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/phystat05/index.ht