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View SchemaThe uniformly most powerful test of statistical significance for counting-type experiments with background
| Authors | L. Fleysher, R. Fleysher, T. J. Haines, A. I. Mincer, P. Nemethy |
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| Categories | |
| ArXiv ID | physics/0306146 |
| URL | https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306146 |
Abstract
In this paper, after a discussion of general properties of statistical tests, we present the construction of the most powerful hypothesis test for determining the existence of a new phenomenon in counting-type experiments where the observed Poisson process is subject to a Poisson distributed background with unknown mean.
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