Late-Night Thoughts About the Significance of a Small Count of Nuclear or Particle Events

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Reconciliation of frequentist and Bayesian approaches to elementary treatment of data in nuclear and particle physics is attempted. Unique procedure to express the significance of a small count in presence of background is henceforth proposed and discussed in some detail.
18 pages, 9 figures, titles to subsections added, typos corrected

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Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/86826

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https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0501108
 http://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0501108

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