Confidence limits: what is the problem? Is there the solution?
| dc.creator | D'Agostini, G. | |
| dc.date | 2000-02-22 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T03:33:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T03:33:52Z | |
| dc.description | This contribution to the debate on confidence limits focuses mostly on the case of measurements with `open likelihood', in the sense that it is defined in the text. I will show that, though a prior-free assessment of {\it confidence} is, in general, not possible, still a search result can be reported in a mostly unbiased and efficient way, which satisfies some desiderata which I believe are shared by the people interested in the subject. The simpler case of `closed likelihood' will also be treated, and I will discuss why a uniform prior on a sensible quantity is a very reasonable choice for most applications. In both cases, I think that much clarity will be achieved if we remove from scientific parlance the misleading expressions `confidence intervals' and `confidence levels'. | |
| dc.description | 20 pages, 6 figures, using cernrepp.cls (included). Contribution to the Workshop on Confidence Limits, CERN, Geneva, 17-18 January 2000. This paper and related work are also available at http://www-zeus.roma1.infn.it/~agostini/prob+stat.html | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0002055 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0002055 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/36751 | |
| dc.subject | High Energy Physics - Experiment | |
| dc.subject | Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability | |
| dc.title | Confidence limits: what is the problem? Is there the solution? | |
| dc.type | text |