On the measurement of binomial data with background

Academic Article

Publication Date:

2012

abstract:

This paper analyzes in detail how to estimate, from the fraction of events that pass a cut, the fraction of signal events present in the sample, taking into account the cut efficiencies (with their uncertainties) for the signal an background detection.

Iris type:

1.1 Articolo in rivista

Keywords:

BINOMIAL EXPERIMENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FREQUENTIST COVERAGE

List of contributors:

Costanza, Susanna; Rotondi, Alberto

Authors of the University:

COSTANZA SUSANNA

Handle:

https://iris.unipv.it/handle/11571/351526

Published in:

NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT

Journal