The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
A new method of background subtraction is presented which uses the concept of a signal estimator to construct a confidence level which is always conservative and which is never better than e^-s. The new method yields stronger exclusions than the Bayesian method with a flat prior distribution.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/9812030,
title = {The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method},
author = {S. Jin and P. McNamara},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/9812030},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
7 pages, 2 figures, submitted to NIM