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Asymmetric Errors
Roger Barlow, Alessandra Brazzale, Igor Volobouev
We present a procedure for handling asymmetric errors. Many results in particle physics are presented as values with different positive and negative errors, and there is no consist…
The Effective Number of Parameters in Kernel Density Estimation
Sofia Guglielmini, Igor Volobouev, Alexandre Trindade
The quest for a formula that satisfactorily measures the effective degrees of freedom in kernel density estimation (KDE) is a long standing problem with few solutions. Starting fro…
Dose rate effects in the radiation damage of the plastic scintillators of the CMS Hadron Endcap Calorimeter
HCAL collaboration
We present measurements of the reduction of light output by plastic scintillators irradiated in the CMS detector during the 8 TeV run of the Large Hadron Collider and show that the…
Improved Inference for the Signal Significance
Igor Volobouev, A. Alexandre Trindade
We study the properties of several likelihood-based statistics commonly used in testing for the presence of a known signal under a mixture model with known background, but unknown…
On the Expectation-Maximization Unfolding with Smoothing
Igor Volobouev
Error propagation formulae are derived for the expectation-maximization iterative unfolding algorithm regularized by a smoothing step. The effective number of parameters in the fit…
Precision measurements of the top quark mass from the Tevatron in the pre-LHC era
Angela Barbaro Galtieri, Fabrizio Margaroli, Igor Volobouev
The top quark is the heaviest of the six quarks of the Standard Model. Precise knowledge of its mass is important for imposing constraints on a number of physics processes, includi…