The uniformly most powerful test of statistical significance for counting-type experiments with background

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In this paper, after a discussion of general properties of statistical tests, we present the construction of the most powerful hypothesis test for determining the existence of a new phenomenon in counting-type experiments where the observed Poisson process is subject to a Poisson distributed background with unknown mean.
8 pages, 1 figure, submitted to PRD

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Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, Astrophysics, High Energy Physics - Experiment

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http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/85415

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https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/0306146
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