Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2014-11-18 v1
Abstract
The value of the likelihood is occasionally used by high energy physicists as a statistic to measure goodness-of-fit in unbinned maximum likelihood fits. Simple examples are presented that illustrate why this (seemingly intuitive) method fails in practice to achieve the desired goal.
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@article{arxiv.physics/0310167,
title = {Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood},
author = {Joel Heinrich},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0310167},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
Talk PSN MOCT001 from PhyStat2003, Stanford, Ca, USA, September 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, uses REVTeX4 and slac.rtx