TREATMENT OF NUISANCE PARAMETERS IN HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS, AND POSSIBLE JUSTIFICATIONS AND IMPROVEMENTS IN THE STATISTICS LITERATURE
Robert D. Cousins · 2006
Nuisance parameters are common in high energy physics (HEP), and various methods are used for incorporating their effects into measurements of physics interest. A survey of some of the professional statistics literature provides justification for and insight into most of the methods commonly used in HEP. There are extensions and refinements whose usefulness could still be explored, especially in higher-dimensional problems.