Open issues in the wake of Banff 2010

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

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Demortier, Luc ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

EXTREME VALUE THEORY; MEASUREMENT SENSITIVITY; P-VALUE TESTS; PARTON DENSITIES; PROFILE LIKELIHOOD; REFERENCE PRIOR;

EXPERIMENTS; HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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