most citedEvaluation of three methods for calculating statistical significance when incorporating a systematic uncertainty into a test of the background-only hypothesis for a Poisson process

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physics.data-an2007★ 193 cited

Evaluation of three methods for calculating statistical significance when incorporating a systematic uncertainty into a test of the background-only hypothesis for a Poisson process

Robert D. Cousins, James T. Linnemann, Jordan Tucker

Hypothesis tests for the presence of new sources of Poisson counts amidst background processes are frequently performed in high energy physics (HEP), gamma ray astronomy (GRA), and…

physics.data-an2000

Application of Conditioning to the Gaussian-with-Boundary Problem in the Unified Approach to Confidence Intervals

Robert D. Cousins

Roe and Woodroofe (RW) have suggested that certain conditional probabilities be incorporated into the ``unified approach'' for constructing confidence intervals, previously describ…