2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/199792A Bayesian treatment of the problem of detecting an unmodelled gravitational wave burst with a global network of gravitational wave observatories reveals that several previously proposed statistics have implicit biases that render them sub-optimal for realistic signal populations.9 pages, 1 figure, submitted to CQG Amaldi proceedings special issueGeneral Relativity and Quantum Cosmologytext