Statistics – Applications
Scientific paper
Dec 1994
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...436..784l&link_type=abstract
Astrophysical Journal, Part 1 (ISSN 0004- 637X), vol. 436, no. 2, December 1, 1994, p. 784- 786
Statistics
Applications
8
Electromagnetic Noise, Null Hypothesis, Poisson Density Functions, Random Processes, Signal Detection, Spectroscopic Analysis, Statistical Tests, Algorithms, Astronomical Spectroscopy, Dosimeters, Imaging Techniques, Shot Noise
Scientific paper
This paper presents a statistical test for detecting significant differences between two random count accumulations. The null hypothesis is that the two samples share a common random arrival process with a mean count proportional to each sample's exposure. The model represents the partition of N total events into two counts, A and B, as a sequence of N independent Bernoulli trials whose partition fraction, f, is determined by the ratio of the exposures of A and B. The detection of a significant difference is claimed when the background (null) hypothesis is rejected, which occurs when the observed sample falls in a critical region of (A, B) space. The critical region depends on f and the desired significance level, alpha. The model correctly takes into account the fluctuations in both the signals and the background data, including the important case of small numbers of counts in the signal, the background, or both. The significance can be exactly determined from the cumulative binomial distribution, which in turn can be inverted to determine the critical A(B) or B(A) contour. This paper gives efficient implementations of these tests, based on lookup tables. Applications include the detection of clustering of astronomical objects, the detection of faint emission or absorption lines in photon-limited spectroscopy, the detection of faint emitters or absorbers in photon- limited imaging, and dosimetry.
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