Uncertainty components in profile likelihood fits

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العنوان: Uncertainty components in profile likelihood fits
المؤلفون: Pinto, Andrés, Wu, Zhibo, Balli, Fabrice, Berger, Nicolas, Boonekamp, Maarten, Chapon, Émilien, Kawamoto, Tatsuo, Malaescu, Bogdan
سنة النشر: 2023
المجموعة: High Energy Physics - Experiment
Physics (Other)
مصطلحات موضوعية: Physics - Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability, High Energy Physics - Experiment
الوصف: When a measurement of a physical quantity is reported, the total uncertainty is usually decomposed into statistical and systematic uncertainties. This decomposition is not only useful to understand the contributions to the total uncertainty, but also required to propagate these contributions in subsequent analyses, such as combinations or interpretation fits including results from other measurements or experiments. In profile-likelihood fits, widely applied in high-energy physics analyses, contributions of systematic uncertainties are routinely quantified using "impacts", which are not adequate for such applications. We discuss the difference between impacts and actual uncertainty components, and establish methods to determine the latter in a wide range of statistical models.
Comment: 20 pages
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2307.04007
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2307.04007
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv