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hep-ex1999
Sceptical combination of experimental results: General considerations and application to epsilon-prime/epsilon
G. D'Agostini
This paper is meant as a contribution to the often debated subject of how to combine data which appear to be in mutual disagreement. As a practical example, the epsilon-prime/epsil…
hep-ex1999
Inferring the intensity of Poisson processes at the limit of the detector sensitivity (with a case study on gravitational wave burst search)
P. Astone, G. D'Agostini
We consider the issue of reporting the result of search experiment in the most unbiased and efficient way, i.e. in a way which allows an easy interpretation and combination of resu…
physics.data-an1999
Overcoming priors anxiety
G. D'Agostini
The choice of priors may become an insoluble problem if priors and Bayes' rule are not seen and accepted in the framework of subjectivism. Therefore, the meaning and the role of su…