A Bayesian approach to evaluate confidence intervals in counting experiments with background

Details A Bayesian approach to evaluate confidence intervals in counting experiments with background A Bayesian approach to evaluate confidence intervals in counting experiments with background

2011-05-16

arxiv.org/abs/1105.3041v1

Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A646:167-173,2011

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

19 pages, 6 figures

Scientific paper

10.1016/j.nima.2011.05.023

In this paper we propose a procedure to evaluate Bayesian confidence
intervals in counting experiments where both signal and background fluctuations
are described by the Poisson statistics. The results obtained when the method
is applied to the calculation of upper limits will also be illustrated.

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