Per-event significance indicator to visualise significant events
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2019-02-25 v1 Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
In this note, an alternative for presenting the distribution of `significant' events in searches for new phenomena is described. The alternative is based on probability density functions used in the evaluation of the `significance' of an observation, rather than the typical ratio of signal to background. The method is also applicable to searches that use unbinned data, for which the concept of signal to background can be ambiguous. In the case of simple searches using binned data, this method reproduces the familiar quantity , when the signal to background ratio is small.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1902.08508,
title = {Per-event significance indicator to visualise significant events},
author = {Nicholas Wardle},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.08508},
year = {2019}
}