Joint parametric fitting of source plus background yields unbiased parameters and valid Cash statistics, while wstat and fixed-background methods introduce significant bias in low-count regimes.
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A comparison of methods for Poisson regression in the presence of background
Joint parametric fitting of source plus background yields unbiased parameters and valid Cash statistics, while wstat and fixed-background methods introduce significant bias in low-count regimes.