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

Goodness of fit tests for weighted histograms

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Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

Ettore Majorana Foundation and Centre for Scientific Culture

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Poster 2. Data Analysis

Speaker

Prof. Nikolai Gagunashvili (University of Akureyri, Iceland)

Description

Weighted histograms in Monte-Carlo simulations are often used for the estimation of a probability density functions. They are obtained as a result of random experiment with random events that have weights. In this paper the bin contents of weighted histogram are considered as a sum of random variables with random number of terms. Goodness of fit tests for weighted histograms and for weighted histograms with unknown normalization are proposed. Sizes and powers of the tests are investigated numerically.

Primary author

Prof. Nikolai Gagunashvili (University of Akureyri, Iceland)

Presentation materials