Late-Night Thoughts About the Significance of a Small Count of Nuclear or Particle Events
arXiv:physics/0501108
Abstract
Reconciliation of frequentist and Bayesian approaches to elementary treatment of data in nuclear and particle physics is attempted. Unique procedure to express the significance of a small count in presence of background is henceforth proposed and discussed in some detail.
18 pages, 9 figures, titles to subsections added, typos corrected