A Survey of Unfolding Methods for Particle Physics
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G. Cowan Physics Department, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Abstract A pedagogical introduction to the problem of unfolding probability distributions in particle physics is given. Several of the most commonly used methods are reviewed and compared.
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