Fully Bayesian Unfolding

Abstract

Bayesian inference is applied directly to the problem of unfolding. The outcome is a posterior probability density for the spectrum before smearing, defined in the multi-dimensional space of all possible spectra. Regularization consists in choosing a non-constant prior. Despite some similarity, the fully bayesian unfolding (FBU) method, presented here, should not be confused with D'Agostini's iterative method.

24 pages of text, 40 pages of figures

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