A Test for the Presence of a Signal, with Multiple Channels and Marked Poisson
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2008-07-31 v2
Abstract
We describe a statistical hypothesis test for the presence of a signal based on the likelihood ratio statistic. We derive the test for a special case of interest. We study extensions of the test to cases where there are multiple channels and to marked Poisson distributions. We show the results of a number of performance studies which indicate that the test works very well, even far out in the tails of the distribution and with multiple channels and marked Poisson.
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@article{arxiv.0807.2149,
title = {A Test for the Presence of a Signal, with Multiple Channels and Marked Poisson},
author = {Wolfgang A. Rolke and Angel M. Lopez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.2149},
year = {2008}
}
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21 pages, 6 figues