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Testing for a Signal

We describe a statistical hypothesis test for the presence of a signal based on the likelihood ratio statistic. We derive the test for one case of interest and also show that for that case the test works very well, even far out in the tails of the distribution. We also study extensions of the test t...

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Autores principales: Rolke, Wolfgang A, Lòpez, Angel M
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: CERN 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2008-001.34
http://cds.cern.ch/record/1099968