Late-Night Thoughts About the Significance of a Small Count of Nuclear or Particle Events
Abstract
Reconciliation of frequentist and Bayesian approaches to elementary treatment of data in nuclear and particle physics is attempted. Unique procedure to express the significance of a small count in presence of background is henceforth proposed and discussed in some detail.
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