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NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH SECTION A-ACCELERATORS SPECTROMETERS DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Volume 452, Issue 3, Pages 518-524Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-9002(00)00454-X
Keywords
hypotheses testing; statistics; Monte-Carlo methods
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Several criteria used by physicists to quantify the ratio of signal to background in planned experiments are compared. An equal probability test is proposed for the evaluation of the uncertainty in planned search experiments. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
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