Confidence level computation for combining searches with small statistics

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

Volumn 434, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 435-443

  Junk, Thomas ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COLLIDING BEAM ACCELERATORS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL METHODS; STATISTICS;

CONFIDENCE LEVEL; POISSON STATISTICS;

ELEMENTARY PARTICLES;

EID: 0033592266     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(99)00498-2     Document Type: Article

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