A novel approach to the bias-variance problem in bump hunting

This study explores various data-driven methods for performing background-model selection, and for assigning uncertainty on the signal-strength estimator that arises due to the choice of background model. The performance of these methods is evaluated in the context of several realistic example probl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Michael
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Laboratory for Nuclear Science
Format: Article
Published: IOP Publishing 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/120588
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8285-3346