MFV approach to robust estimate of neutron lifetime
Abstract
Aiming at evaluating the lifetime of the neutron, we introduce a novel statistical method to analyse the updated compilation of precise measurements including the 2022 dataset of Particle Data Group (PDG). Based on the minimization for the information loss principle, unlike the median statistics method, we apply the most frequent value (MFV) procedure to estimate the neutron lifetime, irrespective of the Gaussian or non-Gaussian distributions. Providing a more robust way, the calculated result of the MFV is
- Publication:
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European Physical Journal C
- Pub Date:
- December 2022
- DOI:
- 10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11071-9
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2212.05890
- Bibcode:
- 2022EPJC...82.1106Z
- Keywords:
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- Physics - Data Analysis;
- Statistics and Probability;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics;
- Nuclear Experiment
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1140/epjc/s10052-022-11071-9