Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process

Hypothesis tests for the presence of new sources of Poisson counts amidst background processes are frequently performed in high energy physics, gamma ray astronomy, and other branches of science. This talk brie y summarizes work in which we evaluate two classes of algorithms for dealing with uncerta...

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Autor principal: Tucker, Jordan
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: CERN 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2008-001.40
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spelling cern-10999722019-09-30T06:29:59Zdoi:10.5170/CERN-2008-001.40http://cds.cern.ch/record/1099972engTucker, JordanEvaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson ProcessXXHypothesis tests for the presence of new sources of Poisson counts amidst background processes are frequently performed in high energy physics, gamma ray astronomy, and other branches of science. This talk brie y summarizes work in which we evaluate two classes of algorithms for dealing with uncertainty in the mean background in such tests.CERNoai:cds.cern.ch:10999722008
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Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title_full Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title_fullStr Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title_full_unstemmed Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title_short Evaluation of Two Methods for Incorporating a Systematic Uncertainty into a Test of the Background-only Hypothesis for a Poisson Process
title_sort evaluation of two methods for incorporating a systematic uncertainty into a test of the background-only hypothesis for a poisson process
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