The signal estimator limit setting method

DOI10.1016/S0375-9474(00)00220-7MaRDI QIDQ1572775zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Shan Jin

Publication date 14 August 2000

Published in Nuclear Physics. A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/physics/9812030

zbMATH Keywords

confidence levelbackground subtractionMonte Carlo proceduresignal estimator limit setting

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monte Carlo methods (65C05) Applications to the sciences (65Z05)

Abstract: A new method of background subtraction is presented which uses the concept of a signal estimator to construct a confidence level which is always conservative and which is never better than e^-s. The new method yields stronger exclusions than the Bayesian method with a flat prior distribution.

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