Response to Comment from Robert Cousins on Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution
arXiv:2510.25162
Abstract
Robert Cousins has posted a comment on my manuscript on ``Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution''. His key point is that one should not include in the likelihood non-physical parameter values, even for frequency statistics. This is my response, in which I contend that it can be useful to do so when discussing such descriptive statistics.
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