Estimating small signals by using maximum likelihood and Poisson statistics

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

Volumn 431, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 239-251

  Hannam, Mark D ^a   Thompson, William J ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ASTROPHYSICS; COMPUTER APPLICATIONS; DATA REDUCTION; EXPERIMENTS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; NUCLEAR PHYSICS;

COUNTING EXPERIMENTS; NUCLEAR ASTROPHYSICS; POISSON STATISTICS;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 0032625912     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00269-7     Document Type: Article

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