What is the Usefulness of Frequentist Confidence Intervals?
arXiv:hep-ex/0003001
Abstract
The following questions are discussed: ``Why confidence intervals are a hot topic?''; ``Are confidence intervals objective?''; ``What is the usefulness of coverage?''; ``How to obtain useful information from experiment?''; ``The confidence level must be chosen independently from the knowledge of the data?''.
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