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The traditional approach is to apply further selection criteria (cuts) on discriminating variables and select a subset of the original sample with an enhanced signal to background ratio. The main disadvantage with this method is that we lose precious signal every time a cut is applied.
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Gillberg, D. (2011). Analysis: Decision Trees. In: Discovery of Single Top Quark Production. Springer Theses. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7799-1_6
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