Speaker
Dr
Sergey Bityukov
(INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, PROTVINO)
Description
We compare two approaches to the combining of signal significances:
the approach, in which the signal significances are considered
as corresponding random variables, and the approach with the using
of confidence distributions. Several signal significances, which are
often used in analysis of data in experimental physics as a measure
of excess of the observed or expected number of signal events above
the predicted number of background events, are considered.
Author
Dr
Sergey Bityukov
(INSTITUTE FOR HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, PROTVINO)
Co-authors
Dr
Alexander Nikitenko
(Imperial College, London, United Kingdom)
Prof.
Nikolai Krasnikov
(Institute for nuclear research RAS, Moscow, Russia)
