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Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution
Frank C. Porter
The Poisson probability distribution is frequently encountered in physical science measurements. In spite of the simplicity and familiarity of this distribution, there is considera…
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Response to Comment from Robert Cousins on Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution
Frank C. Porter
Robert Cousins has posted a comment on my manuscript on ``Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution''. His key point is that one should not include in the likelihood non-ph…