New measures of the quality and of the reliability of fits applied to forward hadronic data at t=0

Abstract

We develop five new statistical measures of the quality of fits, which we combine with the usual confidence level to determine the models which fit best all available data for total cross sections and for the real part of the forward hadronic amplitude.

7 pages, presented by J.R. Cudell on behalf of the COMPETE collaboration at the 6th workshop on non-perturbative QCD, American University of Paris, 5-9 June 2001