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On combining significances. Some trivial examples

@inproceedings{NVKrasnikov2010OnCS,
  title={On combining significances. Some trivial examples},
  author={N.V.Krasnikov and S.I.Bityukov},
  year={2010}
}

• N.V.Krasnikov, S.I.Bityukov
• Published 2 December 2010
• Mathematics

For Poisson distribution Pois(n, λ) with λ ≫ 1, n ≫ 1 we propose to determine significance as S = nobs − λ √ λ . The significance S coincides up to sign with often used significance. For experiments which measure the same quantities the natural but not unique rule for significance combining is Scomb(S1, S2) = S1σ1 + S2σ2