Timeline for Removing zero-counts in exponential decay measurement
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| Dec 18, 2018 at 13:53 | vote | accept | DrShellyCooper | ||
| Dec 18, 2018 at 5:36 | comment | added | anna v | this is what is the experiment physlab.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Muon_cali.pdf . The zeros are part of the experiment if done correctly with a chi2 fit as you suggest | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 22:06 | comment | added | Andrew Steane | If you have the opportunity to work with the equipment, you can of course try to discover if it is suffering from some intermittent problem. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 21:56 | comment | added | DrShellyCooper | Well I understand your point. I still feel like the zeroes don't contribute to anything but ruining the fit (at least for points where the neighbouring points are way above zero). Maybe an inprovement would be to sample more data, to possibly reduce the number of zero-points. Thank you anyways. | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 20:55 | comment | added | innisfree | all true, but I think there is a mistake in the OP's analysis regarding which quantity is exponentially distributed | |
| Dec 17, 2018 at 20:53 | history | answered | Andrew Steane | CC BY-SA 4.0 |