Estimating exclusion limits in prospective studies of searches

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 378, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 301-304

  Hernández, Juan José ^a   Navas, Sergio ^a   Rebecchi, Pierpaolo ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; MONTE CARLO METHODS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BAYESIAN APPROACH; EXCLUSION LIMITS; GAUSSIAN STANDARD DEVIATIONS; MINIMUM SAMPLE SIZE; MONTE CARLO PROSPECTIVE ANALYSIS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION;

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTATION;

EID: 0030211606     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0168-9002(96)00418-4     Document Type: Article

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