paper

Measures of Significance in HEP and Astrophysics

arXiv:physics/0312059

Abstract

I compare and discuss critically several measures of statistical significance in common use in astrophysics and in high energy physics. I also exhibit some relationships among them.

Talk from PhyStat2003, Stanford, Ca, USA, September 2003, 5 pages, LaTex, 2 eps figures. MOBT001; typo fixed