Coverage Of Confidence Intervals For Poisson Statistics In Presence Of Systematic Uncertainties

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dc.creatorConrad, J.
dc.creatorBotner, O.
dc.creatorHallgren, A.
dc.creatorHeros, C. P. de los
dc.date2002-06-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T03:35:17Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T03:35:17Z
dc.descriptionIn this note we consider coverage of confidence intervals calculated with and without systematic uncertainties. These calculations follow the prescription originally proposed by Cousins & Highland but here extended to account for different shapes, size and types of systematic uncertainties. Also two different ordering schemes are considered: the Feldman & Cousins ordering and its variant where conditioning on the background expectation is applied as proposed by Roe & Woodroofe. Without uncertainties Feldman & Cousins method over-covers as expected because of the discreteness of the Poisson distribution. For Roe & Woodroofe's method we find under-coverage for low signal expectations. When including uncertainties it becomes important to define the ensemble for which the coverage is determined. We consider two different ensembles, where in ensemble A all nuisance parameters are fixed and in ensemble B the nuisance parameters are varied according to their uncertainties. We also discuss the subtleties of the realization of the ensemble with varying systematic uncertainties.
dc.description6 pages, 3 figures. To appear in: Proceedings of Conference on Advanced Statisical Techniques in Particle Physics, Durham, 2002
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0206034
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/hep-ex/0206034
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/37295
dc.subjectHigh Energy Physics - Experiment
dc.subjectData Analysis, Statistics and Probability
dc.titleCoverage Of Confidence Intervals For Poisson Statistics In Presence Of Systematic Uncertainties
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