A Test for the Presence of a Signal, with Multiple Channels and Marked Poisson
arXiv:0807.2149
Abstract
We describe a statistical hypothesis test for the presence of a signal based on the likelihood ratio statistic. We derive the test for a special case of interest. We study extensions of the test to cases where there are multiple channels and to marked Poisson distributions. We show the results of a number of performance studies which indicate that the test works very well, even far out in the tails of the distribution and with multiple channels and marked Poisson.
arXiv comment21 pages, 6 figues