Finding an upper limit in the presence of an unknown background

Physical Review D

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2002, Pages

  Yellin, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CALCULATION; METHODOLOGY; PHYSICS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 0036695356     PISSN: 05562821     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.66.032005     Document Type: Article

References (6)

1. G.J. Feldman and R.D. Cousins, Phys. Rev. D 57, 3873 (1998).
2. D. Abrams et al., astro-ph/0203500.
3. http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~yellin/ULsoftware.html
4. Particle Data Group, R.M. Barnett et al., Phys. Rev: D 54, 1 (1996).
5. See especially, p. 164. In subsequent reviews the Particle Data Group dropped its discussion of upper limits of Pois son processes, probably because the procedure of Feldman and Cousins [1] is now generally accepted as preferable when, as is usually assumed in discussions of confidence regions, backgrounds are well understood.
6. http://wwwinfo.cern.ch/asdoc/shortwrupsdir/index.html