paper

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