A Comparison of Limit Setting Methods for the On-Off Problem

Abstract

We study the frequentist properties of confidence intervals for the On-Off problem. The methods include all those in common use today. We derive explicit formulas for the limits and calculate the true coverage and the expected lengths of these methods.

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