Sceptical combination of experimental results: General considerations and application to epsilon-prime/epsilon
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
Condensed Matter
High Energy Physics - Phenomenology
Nuclear Experiment
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
Abstract
This paper is meant as a contribution to the often debated subject of how to combine data which appear to be in mutual disagreement. As a practical example, the epsilon-prime/epsilon determinations have been considered.
Cite
@article{arxiv.hep-ex/9910036,
title = {Sceptical combination of experimental results: General considerations and application to epsilon-prime/epsilon},
author = {G. D'Agostini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/9910036},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
20 pages, 12 figures. This paper and related work are also available at http://www-zeus.roma1.infn.it/~agostini/prob+stat.html