Statistics, Handle with Care: Detecting
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Protassov, Rostislav; van Dyk, David A.; Connors, Alanna; Kashyap, Vinay L.; Sie
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Article
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2002
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University of Chicago Press
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English
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The likelihood ratio test (LRT) and the related F-test, popularized in astrophysics by Eadie and coworkers in 1971 , do not (even asymptotically) adhere to their nominal 2 and F-distributions in many statistical tests common in astrophysics, thereby casting many marginal line or source detections an