A comparison of methods for confidence intervals
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v5
Abstract
Comparisons are carried out of the confidence intervals constructed with Neyman's frequentist method and with the \Delta L=1/2 likelihood method, using the example of low-statistics life time estimates.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0309077,
title = {A comparison of methods for confidence intervals},
author = {A. D. Bukin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0309077},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
Talk from PhyStat03, Stanford, CA, USA, Sep 2003, 3 pages, LaTeX, 3 eps figs. v2: PSN number corrected. v3: reviewer (R.Barlow) remarks accounted. v4: final version after reviewing. v5: numerical error corrected in Bayesian approach