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Setting confidence belts

Setting confidence belts

We propose using a Bayes procedure with uniform, improper, prior to determine credible belts for the mean of a Poisson distribution in the presence of a background and for the continuous problem of measuring a non-negative quantity $\ensuremath{\theta}$ with a normally distributed measurement error. Within the Bayesian framework, these belts …