Pitfalls of Goodness-of-Fit from Likelihood
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The value of the likelihood is occasionally used by high energy physicists as a statistic to measure goodness-of-fit in unbinned maximum likelihood fits. Simple examples are presented that illustrate why this (seemingly intuitive) method fails in practice to achieve the desired goal.
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