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A prescription for the error analysis of experimental data in the case of stochastic background is formulated. Several relations are given which allow to establish the significance of mother-daughter relationships obtained from delayed coincidences. Both, the probability that a cascade is produced randomly and the probability that the parameters of an observed event chain are incompatible with known properties of a given species are formulated. The expressions given are applicable also in cases of poor statistics down even to single events.
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We gratefully acknowledge fruitful discussions with P. Armbruster and F. Bosch. We thank W. Reisdorf for a careful reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by BMFT.
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Schmidt, K.H., Sahm, C.C., Pielenz, K. et al. Some remarks on the error analysis in the case of poor statistics. Z Physik A 316, 19–26 (1984). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01415656
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