Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood

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2003-10-31

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0310167v1

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

Talk PSN MOCT001 from PhyStat2003, Stanford, Ca, USA, September 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, uses REVTeX4 and slac.rtx

Scientific paper

The value of the likelihood is occasionally used by high energy physicists as
a statistic to measure goodness-of-fit in unbinned maximum likelihood fits.
Simple examples are presented that illustrate why this (seemingly intuitive)
method fails in practice to achieve the desired goal.

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