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Limits and confidence intervals in the presence of nuisance parameters

We discuss a general methodology called profile likelihood for the treatment of nuisance parameters, especially for the problem of setting limits. The method is fully frequentist and is applied here to the case of a Poisson signal process in the presence of background and efficiency, both of which c...

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Autores principales: Rolke, Wolfgang A., Lopez, Angel M., Conrad, Jan
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2005.05.068
https://dx.doi.org/10.1142/9781860948985_0021
http://cds.cern.ch/record/722639