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This chapter describes the statistical interpretation of the results to make statements about the presence or absence of the FCNC signals.
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Unless the two hypotheses that are being tested are mutually exclusive, and the union of both covers all the spectrum of possibilities, the rejection of one hypothesis doesn’t imply an affirmation of the second one.
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Note that with the 5% prescription and assuming Gaussian statistics, one in every twenty experiments would lead to the claim of excluding the SM.
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Tsiskaridze, S. (2017). Statistical Analysis. In: Search for Flavor-Changing Neutral Current Top Quark Decays t → Hq, with H → bb̅ , in pp Collisions at √s = 8 TeV with the ATLAS Detector. Springer Theses. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63414-2_8
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