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Expand Up @@ -298,7 +298,7 @@ and :math:`\vec{N_S}|H_{B})` will be small, since the data is improbable under t
hence the ratio will be large. Conversely for a dataset :math:`N_B` that is very background-like
:math:`L(\vec{N_B}|H_{S+B})` will be small, since the data is probable under this hypothesis,
and :math:`L({\vec{N_B}}|H_{B})` will be large, since the data is improbable under this hypothesis,
hence the ratio will be large.
hence the ratio will be small.

With a likelihood-ratio test statistic, frequentist :math:`p`-values can be
calculated for observable data distributions or arbitrary complexity as the test
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