New developments of the goodness-of-fit statistical toolkit

IEEE Transactions on Nuclear Science

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 3834-3841

  Mascialino, Barbara ^a   Pfeiffer, Andreas ^b   Pia, Maria Grazia ^a   Ribon, Alberto ^b   Viarengo, Paolo ^c  

^a INFN SEZIONE DI GENOVA   (Italy)

^b CERN   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Data analysis; Data comparison; Goodness of fit testing; Software; Statistical toolkit

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; USABILITY ENGINEERING;

DATA COMPARISON; GOODNESS-OF-FIT TESTING; STATISTICAL PRECISION; STATISTICAL TOOLKIT;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

EID: 33846295866     PISSN: 00189499     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TNS.2006.885386     Document Type: Conference Paper

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