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The Signal Estimator Limit Setting Method

S. Jin, P. McNamara

physics.data-anarXiv:physics/9812030

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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