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Contents
Further HEP applications
Subsections
Poisson model: dependence on priors, combination of results and systematic effects
Dependence on priors
Combination of results from similar experiments
Combination of results: general case
Including systematic effects
Is there a signal?
Signal and background: a
Mathematica
example
Unbiased results
Uniform prior and fictitious quantities
Constraining the mass of a hypothetical new particle: analysis strategy on a toy model
The rules of the game
Analysis of experiment
Naïve procedure
Correct procedure
Interpretation of the results
Outside the sensitivity region
Including other experiments
Giulio D'Agostini 2003-05-15
