When a Cusum Stops: Statistical Test for False Alarm Confidence

Moshe Pollak authored a 2.1 MB PDF document uploaded to figshare on 2026-05-01. The document develops a statistical test to assess the confidence that a Cusum procedure alarm is not false, with applications in detecting changes in a COVID 19 context.

Use Cases

• Evaluating the reliability of Cusum alarms based on the stochastic behavior of false alarms described in the document.
• Applying the developed test to detect a change in a mean within a COVID-19 context as mentioned.
• Applying the developed test to detect a change in the probability of a rare event within a COVID-19 context as mentioned.

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• Document is 2.1 MB in size, indicating a substantive PDF file.
• Released under a CC-BY-4.0 license, permitting broad reuse with attribution.
• Last updated date is explicitly provided: 2026-05-01 14:56:44.

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Publication date is 2026-05-01.

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