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Upper Limit Estimation

Upper Limit Estimation is a statistical inference method in gamma-ray data analysis that determines the maximum plausible value of a physical quantity, such as source flux or emission rate, under a specified confidence level when the signal is not significantly detected above background noise.

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Upper Limit for the Critical Field in Hard Superconductors

A. M. Clogston · Physical Review Letters · 1962 · 1.8K citations

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On the Normalization of the Cosmic Star Formation History

Andrew Hopkins, J. F. Beacom · The Astrophysical Journal · 2006 · 1.8K citations · Full text

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Improved Experimental Limit on the Electric Dipole Moment of the Neutron

C.A. Baker, D. Doyle, P. Geltenbort et al. · Physical Review Letters · 2006 · 1.3K citations · Full text

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Search for Neutrinos from the Sun

R. Davis, D.S. Harmer, Kenneth C. Hoffman · Physical Review Letters · 1968 · 1.1K citations

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Recommendations for the definition, estimation and use of the detection limit

Analytical Methods Committee · The Analyst · 1987 · 1.1K citations

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  1. JJ
    J. J. Beatty

    The Ohio State University, United States

    11 publications · 991 citations

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    R. Engel

    Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany

    10 publications · 1.3K citations

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    P. R. Brady

    University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, United States

    10 publications · 986 citations

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    G. Mitselmakher

    University of Florida, United States

    9 publications · 923 citations

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  5. JD
    J. D. E. Creighton

    University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, United States

    13 publications · 1.3K citations

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  1. Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

    Paris, France

    35 h-index

    959 publications

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  2. California Institute of Technology

    Pasadena, United States

    31 h-index

    939 publications

    106K citations

  3. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

    Cambridge, United States

    29 h-index

    417 publications

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  4. Goddard Space Flight Center

    Greenbelt, United States

    28 h-index

    123 publications

    11.9K citations

  5. University of California, Berkeley

    Berkeley, United States

    27 h-index

    162 publications

    13K citations

  6. Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory

    Batavia, United States

    27 h-index

    347 publications

    26.3K citations

  7. The University of Tokyo

    Tokyo, Japan

    25 h-index

    363 publications

    17.5K citations

  8. University of Michigan

    Ann Arbor, United States

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    127 publications

    12.3K citations

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  1. The Astrophysical Journal

    ApJ · 155 publications · 10.2K citations

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  2. Physical Review Letters

    PRL · 96 publications · 12.4K citations

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  3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

    91 publications · 6.1K citations

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  5. Physics Letters B

    41 publications · 1.5K citations

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