On Statistical Significance of Signal
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2009-02-20 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
A definition for the statistical significance of a signal in an experiment is proposed by establishing a correlation between the observed p-value and the normal distribution integral probability, which is suitable for both counting experiment and continuous test statistics. The explicit expressions to calculate the statistical significance for both cases are given.
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@article{arxiv.0812.2708,
title = {On Statistical Significance of Signal},
author = {Yong-Sheng Zhu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2708},
year = {2009}
}
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3 pages