Note that a Workshop on Confidence Limits took place at CERN, 17-18 January 2000

Bibliography : Reference papers

• ``Unified approach to the classical statistical analysis of small signals", G.Feldman and R.Cousins, Phys Rev D 57 (1998) 3873-3889.

• ``Inferring the intensity of Poisson processes at the limit of the detector sensitivity", P.Astone and G.D'Agostini, CERN-EP/99-126, hep-ex/9909047

• ``A new ordering principle for the classical statistical analysis of Poisson processes with background", C.Giunti, Giunti, Phys Rev D 59 (1999) 053001 1-6.

• ``Improved probability method for estimating the signal in the presence of background", B.Roe and M.Woodroofe, Phys. Rev. D 60 (1999) 053009 1-5

Papers / Notes from the LEP HIGGS Working Group :

• ``Lower bound for the SM Higgs boson mass: combined result from the four LEP experiments", LEP working group for Higgs boson searches, CERN/LEPC 97-11, LEPC/M 115 (Nov. 1997)

• ``Optimal statistical analysis of search results based on the likelihood ratio and its application to the search for the MSM Higgs boson at sqrt(s) =161 and 172 GeV" , A. L. Read, DELPHI 97-158 PHYS 737

Recent related papers :

• ``The Statistical Analysis of Gaussian and Poisson Signals Near Physical Boundaries", M.Mandelkern, J.Schultz, hep-ex/9910041

• ``Computation of Confidence Intervals for Poisson Processes" , J.A. Aguilar-Saavedra, hep-ex/9911024

• ``Confidence Level Computation for Combining Searches with Small Statistics" , T.Junk, Published in Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A434:435-443,1999, hep-ex/9902006

• " Confidence Level Computation for Combining Searches using the Likelihood Ratio" by Tom Junk