A Bayesian approach to evaluate confidence intervals in counting experiments with background

Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment

Volumn 646, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 167-173

  Loparco, F ^a,b   Mazziotta, M N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARI   (Italy)

^b INFN SEZIONE DI BARI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Counting experiments; Upper limits

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN APPROACHES; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUNTING EXPERIMENTS; POISSON STATISTIC; UPPER LIMITS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 79958192434     PISSN: 01689002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nima.2011.05.023     Document Type: Article

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