Systematic Errors: facts and fictions
High Energy Physics - Experiment
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
The treatment of systematic errors is often mishandled. This is due to lack of understanding and education, based on a fundamental ambiguity as to what is meant by the term. This note addresses the problems and offers guidance to good practice.
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@article{arxiv.hep-ex/0207026,
title = {Systematic Errors: facts and fictions},
author = {Roger Barlow},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:hep-ex/0207026},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
14 pages, 4 figures