Including systematic uncertainties in confidence interval construction for Poisson statistics

Physical Review D - Particles, Fields, Gravitation and Cosmology

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Conrad, J ^a   Botner, O ^a   Hallgren, A ^a   Perez de los Heros C ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

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Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; COSMIC RADIATION; DENSITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEGATIVE PI MESON; NEUTRON RADIATION; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

EID: 0037285165     PISSN: 15507998     EISSN: 15502368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.67.012002     Document Type: Article

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