On the measurement of binomial data with background

Articolo
Data di Pubblicazione:
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.
Tipologia CRIS:
1.1 Articolo in rivista
Keywords:
BINOMIAL EXPERIMENTS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FREQUENTIST COVERAGE
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Autori di Ateneo:
Link alla scheda completa:
https://iris.unipv.it/handle/11571/351526
Pubblicato in:
NUCLEAR INSTRUMENTS & METHODS IN PHYSICS RESEARCH. SECTION A, ACCELERATORS, SPECTROMETERS, DETECTORS AND ASSOCIATED EQUIPMENT
Journal