Open statistical issues in particle physics

DOI10.1214/08-AOAS163zbMath1454.62535arXiv0811.1663OpenAlexW3103070168WikidataQ56906897 ScholiaQ56906897MaRDI QIDQ958322

Louis Lyons

Publication date: 3 December 2008

Published in: The Annals of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1663

zbMATH Keywords

hypothesis testingnuisance parametersparticle physicsgoodness of fit\(p\)-valuesparameter determinationblind analysiscombining resultssignal-background separationupper limits

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to physics (62P35)

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Uses Software

• TMVA
• StatPatternRecognition

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