Statistical methods used in ATLAS for exclusion and discovery

Proceedings of the PHYSTAT 2011 Workshop on Statistical Issues Related to Discovery Claims in Search Experiments and Unfolding

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 94-99

  Casadei, Diego ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASIC CONCEPTS; BAYESIAN; FREQUENTIST; NEW PHYSICS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TESTING; UPPER LIMITS;

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; EXPERIMENTS; TESTING;

STATISTICAL METHODS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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