The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method

Details The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method

1998-12-17

arxiv.org/abs/physics/9812030v1

Physics

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to NIM

Scientific paper

A new method of background subtraction is presented which uses the concept of
a signal estimator to construct a confidence level which is always conservative
and which is never better than e^-s. The new method yields stronger exclusions
than the Bayesian method with a flat prior distribution.

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