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Discovery Sensitivity for a Counting Experiment with Background Uncertainty
Enzo Canonero, Glen Cowan
In Particle Physics, a search for a new signal process is often based on observing a Poisson-distributed number of events, whose mean contains contributions from background and, if…
Comparison of unfolding methods using RooFitUnfold
Lydia Brenner, Pim Verschuuren, Rahul Balasubramanian +4
In this paper we describe RooFitUnfold, an extension of the RooFit statistical software package to treat unfolding problems, and which includes most of the unfolding methods that c…
Unfolding with Gaussian Processes
Adam Bozson, Glen Cowan, Francesco Spanò
A method to perform unfolding with Gaussian processes (GPs) is presented. Using Bayesian regression, we define an estimator for the underlying truth distribution as the mode of the…
Statistical Models with Uncertain Error Parameters
Glen Cowan
In a statistical analysis in Particle Physics, nuisance parameters can be introduced to take into account various types of systematic uncertainties. The best estimate of such a par…