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What is the Usefulness of Frequentist Confidence Intervals?

2000/03/01 by C. Giunti, Giunti, C.
Physics and Astronomy · #Data Analysis #FOS: Physical sciences #High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex) #High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph) #Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an) #hep-ex #hep-ph #physics.data-an

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.hep-ex/0003001

8 pages

arxiv created 2000/03/01 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30

Abstract

The following questions are discussed: ``Why confidence intervals are a hot topic?''; ``Are confidence intervals objective?''; ``What is the usefulness of coverage?''; ``How to obtain useful information from experiment?''; ``The confidence level must be chosen independently from the knowledge of the data?''.

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