The Banff Challenge: statistical detection of a noisy signal

DOI10.1214/08-STS260zbMath1329.94022arXiv0712.2708OpenAlexW2022047921MaRDI QIDQ908148

Anthony C. Davison, Nicola Sartori

Publication date: 3 February 2016

Published in: Statistical Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0712.2708

zbMATH Keywords

likelihoodPoisson distributionsignal detectionBayesian inferenceparticle physicsnoninformative priorhigher-order asymptoticsLarge Hadron Colliderorthogonal parameter

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics (62P99) Signal theory (characterization, reconstruction, filtering, etc.) (94A12) Detection theory in information and communication theory (94A13) Experimental work for problems pertaining to quantum theory (81-05)

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