On uncertainties associated with expected backgrounds in planned experiments

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1305, Issue , 2010, Pages 235-241

  Bityukov, Sergey ^a   Krasnikov, Nikolai ^b   Smirnova, Vera ^a  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

^b INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Confidence distributions; Estimation; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

EID: 79954497942     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.3573622     Document Type: Conference Paper

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