3 papers
hep-ex2001
Frequentist and Bayesian Confidence Intervals
G. Zech
Frequentist (classical) and the Bayesian approaches to the construction of confidence limits are compared. Various examples which illustrate specific problems are presented. The Li…
hep-ex2000
Confronting classical and Bayesian confidence limits to examples
G. Zech
Classical confidence limits are compared to Bayesian error bounds by studying relevant examples. The performance of the two methods is investigated relative to the properties coher…
physics.data-an1998
Objections to the Unified Approach to the Computation of Classical Confidence Limits
Günter Zech
Conventional classical confidence intervals in specific cases are unphysical. A solution to this problem has recently been published by Feldman and Cousins. We show that there are…