This paper analyzes in detail how to estimate, from the fraction of events that pass a cut, the fraction of signal events present in the sample, taking into account the cut efficiencies (with their uncertainties) for the signal an background detection.

On the measurement of binomial data with background

COSTANZA, SUSANNA;ROTONDI, ALBERTO
2012-01-01

Abstract

This paper analyzes in detail how to estimate, from the fraction of events that pass a cut, the fraction of signal events present in the sample, taking into account the cut efficiencies (with their uncertainties) for the signal an background detection.
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