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The statistical analysis of direct Higgs searches at LEP is described.The likelihood ratio with respect to the background-only hypothesis (or a related teststatistic) is used to order experimental results.The ratio of the confidences in the signal+background to background hypotheses, so-called " ", is used to set lower bounds on the Higgs boson mass.The excluded mass interval which results has an untraditional but useful interpretation which differs both from frequentist intervals which require coverage and from Bayesian credible intervals.Issues such as flip-flopping, experimental uncertainties, discovery significance and the transition to measurement are discussed.
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