| ATLAS Note | |
| Report number | ATL-PHYS-PUB-2020-025 |
| Title | Formulae for Estimating Significance |
| Corporate Author(s) | The ATLAS collaboration |
| Collaboration | ATLAS Collaboration |
| Publication | 2020 |
| Imprint | 29 Sep 2020 |
| Number of pages | 24 |
| Note | All figures including auxiliary figures are available at https://atlas.web.cern.ch/Atlas/GROUPS/PHYSICS/PUBNOTES/ATL-PHYS-PUB-2020-025 |
| Subject category | Particle Physics - Experiment |
| Accelerator/Facility, Experiment | CERN LHC ; ATLAS |
| Free keywords | Significance ; STATISTICS |
| Abstract | This note compares several methods for estimating significance of an observation of a number of events given a predicted rate with some uncertainty. A recommendation is made for the nominal formula to use in the absence of any strong justification for choosing an alternative. |
| Scientific contact person | Willocq, S, (Stephane.Willocq@cern.ch) |
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