English

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