3–7 Nov 2008
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture
Europe/Zurich timezone

Two approaches to Combining Significances

4 Nov 2008, 16:35
25m
Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

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Parallel Talk 3. Computation in Theoretical Physics Methodology of Computations in Theoretical Physics - Session 2

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.

Primary 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)

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