The uniformly most powerful test of statistical significance for counting-type experiments with background
Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
2007-05-23 v1 Astrophysics
High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
In this paper, after a discussion of general properties of statistical tests, we present the construction of the most powerful hypothesis test for determining the existence of a new phenomenon in counting-type experiments where the observed Poisson process is subject to a Poisson distributed background with unknown mean.
Cite
@article{arxiv.physics/0306146,
title = {The uniformly most powerful test of statistical significance for counting-type experiments with background},
author = {L. Fleysher and R. Fleysher and T. J. Haines and A. I. Mincer and P. Nemethy},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:physics/0306146},
year = {2007}
}
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8 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PRD