TY  - GEN
TI  - Workshop on Confidence Limits : CERN, Geneva, Switzerland, 17-18 January 2000 : proceedings
T2  - CERN (Series) ; 2000-005
SN  - 9290831650
AV  - QC770 .W67 2000
PY  - 2000///
CY  - Geneva
PB  - CERN
KW  - Confidence intervals
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction and statement of the problem -- Confidence limits -- Bayesian analysis -- Comments on methods for setting confidence levels -- Enhancing the physical significance of frequentist confidence intervals -- On the problem of low counts in a signal plus noise model -- Modified frequentist analysis of search results (The CLs method) -- The signal estimator limit setting method -- Analytic confidence level calculatons using the likelihood ratio and Fourier Transform -- Limits on Bs oscillations -- Confronting classical and bayesian confidence limits to examples -- Interval estimation as viewed from the world of mathematical statistics -- Drawing sensitivity curves -- Statistical analysis of the LSND evidence and the Karmen exclusion for ?Vu-?Ve oscillations -- Bayesian presentation of neutrino oscillation results -- Upper limits in the case that zero events are observed -- Stronger classical confidence limits -- On observability of signal over background -- Inclusion of systematic uncertainties in upper limits and hypothesis tests -- Setting limits and making discoveries in CDF -- Estimation of confidence intervals in measurements of trilinear gauge boson couplings
ER  -