New technique for finding needles in haystacks: Geometric approach to distinguishing between a new source and random fluctuations

Physical Review Letters

Volumn 95, Issue 23, 2005, Pages

  Pilla, Ramani S ^a   Loader, Catherine ^a   Taylor, Cyrus C ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMETRICAL INTERPRETATION; HIGH-ENERGY PARTICLE PHYSICS; RANDOM FLUCTUATIONS; SCORE TEST STATISTIC;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; SIGNAL DETECTION; STATISTICAL METHODS;

HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

EID: 28844450222     PISSN: 00319007     EISSN: 10797114     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.230202     Document Type: Article

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