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Finding a signal in a background
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Figure 5.26

Fitting a model of a signal in an unknown background. The histogram in the
top-right panel visualizes a sample drawn from a Gaussian signal plus a
uniform background model given by eq. 5.83 and shown by the line. The remaining
panels show projections of the three-dimensional posterior pdf, based on a
20,000 point MCMC chain.



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