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A method for compar...
A method for comparing non-nested models with application to astrophysical searches for new physics
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- Algeri, Sara (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Fysikum,Imperial College London, UK
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- Conrad, Jan (author)
- Stockholms universitet,Fysikum,Oskar Klein-centrum för kosmopartikelfysik (OKC),Imperial College London, UK
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van Dyk, David A. (author)
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- 2016-02-15
- 2016
- English.
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In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. - : Oxford University Press (OUP). - 0035-8711 .- 1365-2966 .- 1745-3925 .- 1745-3933. ; 458:1, s. L84-L88
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- Searches for unknown physics and decisions between competing astrophysical models to explain data both rely on statistical hypothesis testing. The usual approach in searches for new physical phenomena is based on the statistical likelihood ratio test and its asymptotic properties. In the common situation, when neither of the two models under comparison is a special case of the other i.e. when the hypotheses are non-nested, this test is not applicable. In astrophysics, this problem occurs when two models that reside in different parameter spaces are to be compared. An important example is the recently reported excess emission in astrophysical gamma-rays and the question whether its origin is known astrophysics or dark matter. We develop and study a new, simple, generally applicable, frequentist method and validate its statistical properties using a suite of simulations studies. We exemplify it on realistic simulated data of the Fermi-Large Area Telescope gamma-ray satellite, where non-nested hypotheses testing appears in the search for particle dark matter.
Subject headings
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Fysik (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Physical Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- astroparticle physics
- methods: data analysis
- methods: statistical
- dark matter
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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