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A Comparison of Limit Setting Methods for the On-Off Problem
Wolfgang A. Rolke
We study the frequentist properties of confidence intervals for the On-Off problem. The methods include all those in common use today. We derive explicit formulas for the limits an…
Estimating a Signal In the Presence of an Unknown Background
Wolfgang A. Rolke, Angel M. López
We describe a method for fitting distributions to data which only requires knowledge of the parametric form of either the signal or the background but not both. The unknown distrib…
Solution to Banff 2 Challenge Based on Likelihood Ratio Test
Wolfgang A Rolke
We describe our solution to the Banff 2 challenge problems as well as the outcomes.
A Test for Equality of Distributions in High Dimensions
Wolfgang Rolke, Angel Lopez
We present a method which tests whether or not two datasets (one of which could be Monte Carlo generated) might come from the same distribution. Our method works in arbitrarily hig…
Limits, discovery and cut optimization for a Poisson process with uncertainty in background and signal efficiency: TRolke 2.0
J. Lundberg, J. Conrad, W. Rolke +1
A C++ class was written for the calculation of frequentist confidence intervals using the profile likelihood method. Seven combinations of Binomial, Gaussian, Poissonian and Binomi…
A Test for the Presence of a Signal, with Multiple Channels and Marked Poisson
Wolfgang A. Rolke, Angel M. Lopez
We describe a statistical hypothesis test for the presence of a signal based on the likelihood ratio statistic. We derive the test for a special case of interest. We study extensio…