Phys. Rev. D 62, 098301 (2000) [2 pages]Comment on “Improved probability method for estimating signal in the presence of background”Received 10 April 2000; published 25 September 2000 For the statistical analysis of Poisson processes with background, Roe and Woodroofe (RW) have suggested that certain conditional probabilities be incorporated into the “unified approach” for constructing confidence intervals, previously described by Feldman and Cousins (FC). This Poisson example was one of the two prototype problems in the FC paper. The application of the RW method to the other FC prototype problem, that of Gaussian errors with a bounded physical region, makes an undesirable feature of the RW method apparent. © 2000 The American Physical Society URL:
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/PhysRevD.62.098301
DOI:
10.1103/PhysRevD.62.098301
PACS:
14.60.Pq, 06.20.Dk
See AlsoOriginal Article: Byron P. Roe and Michael B. Woodroofe, Improved probability method for estimating signal in the presence of background, Phys. Rev. D 60, 053009 (1999). |
|
About | Terms and Conditions | Subscriptions | Search | Help
Use of the American Physical Society websites and journals implies that the user has read and agrees to our Terms and Conditions and any applicable Subscription Agreement. Physical Review®, Physical Review Letters®, Reviews of Modern Physics®, and Physical Review Special Topics® are trademarks of the American Physical Society.