A Bayesian treatment of the problem of detecting an unmodelled gravitational wave burst with a global network of gravitational wave observatories reveals that several previously proposed statistics have implicit biases that render them sub-optimal for realistic signal populations.
@article{arxiv.0712.0196,
title = {Robust Bayesian detection of unmodelled bursts},
author = {Antony C Searle and Patrick J Sutton and Massimo Tinto and Graham Woan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0712.0196},
year = {2008}
}
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9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to CQG Amaldi proceedings special issue