On Observability of Signal over Background
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v2 High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Abstract
Several statistics used by physicists to declare the signal observability over the background are compared. It is shown that the frequentist method of testing a precise hypothesis allows one to estimate the power value of criteria with specified level of significance for the considered statistics by Monte Carlo calculations. The application of this approach for the analysis of discovery potential of experiments is discussed.
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@article{arxiv.physics/9809037,
title = {On Observability of Signal over Background},
author = {S. I. Bityukov and N. V. Krasnikov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9809037},
year = {2007}
}
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