A model independent safeguard against background mismodeling for statistical inference

DOI10.1088/1475-7516/2017/05/013MaRDI QIDQ5024285zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Nadav Priel, Ludwig Rauch, Hagar Landsman, Alessandro Manfredini, Ranny Budnik

Publication date 28 January 2022

Published in Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1610.02643

zbMATH Keywords

dark matter detectorsdark matter experimentsdark matter simulations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativity and gravitational theory (83-XX)

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Cites work

• Kernel estimation in high-energy physics
• Statistical methods in experimental physics

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• Informative goodness-of-fit for multivariate distributions

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• RooFit

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