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Analytic Confidence Level Calculations using the Likelihood Ratio and Fourier Transform

The interpretation of new particle search results involves a confidence level calculation on either the discovery hypothesis or the background-only ("null") hypothesis. A typical approach uses toy Monte Carlo experiments to build an expected experiment estimator distribution against which...

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Autores principales: Hu, H, Nielsen, J
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: CERN 1999
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.5170/CERN-2000-005.109
http://cds.cern.ch/record/389410