A Comparison of Limit Setting Methods for the On-Off Problem
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2015-12-09 v3 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Applications
Abstract
We study the frequentist properties of confidence intervals for the On-Off problem. The methods include all those in common use today. We derive explicit formulas for the limits and calculate the true coverage and the expected lengths of these methods.
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@article{arxiv.1505.07027,
title = {A Comparison of Limit Setting Methods for the On-Off Problem},
author = {Wolfgang A. Rolke},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1505.07027},
year = {2015}
}