Setting Limits

Setting Limits

The ability to perceive the chemical world is a universal feature of life. In mammals, the olfactory system detects and discriminates between vast numbers of distinct volatile molecules (recently estimated at an astonishing > 1012 in humans) providing critical information that allows an organism to respond appropriately to changes in its environment. The universe of volatile odorants is accommo...

Setting Occupational Exposure Limits: Are

Setting limits for safe exposure to toxic agents in the workplace is a complex process involving science, law, and policy. Development and use of occupational exposure limits (OELs) transcends national interests and international borders. Even though OELs have a lengthy history, and they form the cornerstone of most occupational risk assessment and risk management plans, their effectiveness in ...

Setting Limits and Making Discoveries in Cdf

This paper presents the statistical methods used in setting limits and discovery significances in the search for new particles in the CDF experiment at the Fermilab Tevatron. For single-channel counting experiments the collaboration employs the classical Helene formula, with Bayesian integration over systematic uncertainties in the signal acceptance and background. For more complex cases such a...

Dealing with systematics and setting limits

The analysis of data in particle physics often involves systematic uncertainties, and the results entail the setting of limits on inferred parameters. This paper illustrates the former with a simple example, building on the introduction to the Bayesian approach given in Sivia [1], and offers a novel suggestion for the latter.

Setting limits: medical technology and the law.