A Comment on the Roe-Woodroofe Construction of Poisson Confidence Intervals

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dc.creatorMandelkern, Mark
dc.creatorSchultz, Jonas
dc.date2000-04-21
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:44:02Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T05:44:02Z
dc.descriptionWe consider the Roe-Woodroofe construction of confidence intervals for the case of a Poisson distributed variate where the mean is the sum of a known background and an unknown non-negative signal. We point out that the intervals do not have coverage in the usual sense but can be made to have such with a modification that does not affect the believability and other desirable features of this attractive construction. A similar modification can be used to provide coverage to the construction recently proposed by Cousins for the Gaussian-with-boundary problem.
dc.description9 pages, 2 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0004052
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0004052
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/83477
dc.subjectData Analysis, Statistics and Probability
dc.subjectGeneral Physics
dc.titleA Comment on the Roe-Woodroofe Construction of Poisson Confidence Intervals
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