Review of the banff challenge on upper limits

PHYSTAT LHC Workshop on Statistical Issues for LHC Physics, PHYSTAT 2007 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 125-134

  Heinrich, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

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NUISANCE PARAMETER; UPPER LIMITS;

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