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In this rapporteur paper I summarize and discuss aspects of the statistical analysis addressed by participants during the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy held at Durham in August 1986. Topics covered include testing for a D.C. excess, testing for periodic emission at a known period, choice of statistic, searching for an unknown period, Fourier analysis, source variability, and estimating the light curve.
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Protheroe, R.J. (1987). Statistical Analysis in High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy. In: Turver, K.E. (eds) Very High Energy Gamma Ray Astronomy. NATO ASI Series, vol 199. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3831-1_10
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