Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood
arXiv:physics/0310167
Abstract
The value of the likelihood is occasionally used by high energy physicists as a statistic to measure goodness-of-fit in unbinned maximum likelihood fits. Simple examples are presented that illustrate why this (seemingly intuitive) method fails in practice to achieve the desired goal.
arXiv commentTalk PSN MOCT001 from PhyStat2003, Stanford, Ca, USA, September 2003, 4 pages, LaTeX, uses REVTeX4 and slac.rtx