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Expand Up @@ -553,7 +553,7 @@ The introduction of composite hypotheses in Bayesian statistics transforms Bayes

.. [#] To facilitate the distinction between symbolic constant expressions (a known background) and symbolic parameters (an unknown background) all constant symbols are marked with a tilde: i.e. :math:`\tilde{a}` is constant expression, whereas :math:`a` is a parameter.

.. [#] An notable example of a distribution that has no well-defined mean or variance is the non-relativistic Breit-Wigner distribution.
.. [#] An notable example of a distribution that has no well-defined variance is the non-relativistic Breit-Wigner distribution.


Statistical inference with nuisance parameters
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*"Sideband fits and systematic uncertainties"*

.. [#] Where the condition is that the POI is fixed at the value :math:`\mu`, rather than allowed to float to the value :math:`\hat{\mu}` in the minimization, as is the case in the minimization of the unconditional estimate :math:`\hat{\theta}`
.. [#] Where the condition is that the POI is fixed at the value :math:`\mu`, rather than allowed to float to the value :math:`\hat{\mu}` in the minimization, as is the case in the minimization of the unconditional estimate :math:`\hat{\theta}`