Evaluation of three methods for calculating statistical significance when incorporating a systematic uncertainty into a test of the background-only hypothesis for a Poisson process
Top Cited Papers
- 1 October 2008
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment
- Vol. 595 (2) , 480-501
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nima.2008.07.086
Abstract
No abstract availableKeywords
All Related Versions
This publication has 29 references indexed in Scilit:
- Observation of TeV Gamma Rays from the Crab Nebula with Milagro Using a New Background Rejection TechniqueThe Astrophysical Journal, 2003
- An unidentified TeV source in the vicinity of Cygnus OB2Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2002
- Comment on Perlman and Wu, “The Emperor’s new tests” (with rejoinder by authors)Statistical Science, 1999
- A simple general formula for tail probabilities for frequentist and Bayesian inferenceBiometrika, 1999
- The Roles of Conditioning in InferenceStatistical Science, 1995
- Why isn’t every physicist a Bayesian?American Journal of Physics, 1995
- Statistical Inference: Likelihood to SignificanceJournal of the American Statistical Association, 1991
- Testing a Point Null Hypothesis: The Irreconcilability of P Values and EvidenceJournal of the American Statistical Association, 1987
- Interpretation of the shape of the likelihood function around its minimumComputer Physics Communications, 1980
- Algorithm AS 63: The Incomplete Beta IntegralJournal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C: Applied Statistics, 1973