Current Decision Level (a.k.a. Critical Level)

• a: acceptable probability of making wrong decision (Type I error): false alarm or false positive

  • a is often taken to be 0.05

• ka: value of standard normal deviate for area 1-a

  • k0.05 is 1.645

• ignore non-Poisson uncertainty for simplicity

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