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Comment on Frank Porter, "Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution"
Robert D. Cousins
Frank Porter has recently posted a review of "Confidence intervals for the Poisson distribution" (arXiv:2509.02852). The long, diverse history of such intervals is closely related…
physics.data-an2024
Lectures on Statistics in Theory: Prelude to Statistics in Practice
Robert D. Cousins
This is a writeup of lectures on "statistics" that have evolved from the initial version for the 2009 Hadron Collider Physics Summer School at CERN to versions for other venues and…
physics.data-an2024
PHYSTAT Informal Review: Marginalizing versus Profiling of Nuisance Parameters
Robert D. Cousins, Larry Wasserman
This is a writeup, with some elaboration, of the talks by the two authors (a physicist and a statistician) at the first PHYSTAT Informal review on January 24, 2024. We discuss Baye…