TY - EJOUR AU - Bruno, Mattia AU - Sommer, Rainer TI - On fits to correlated and auto-correlated data IS - arXiv:2209.14188 M1 - PUBDB-2022-05083 M1 - arXiv:2209.14188 M1 - DESY-22-154 PY - 2022 N1 - 15 pages, 4 figures AB - Observables in particle physics and specifically in lattice QCD calculations are often extracted from fits. Standard χ<sup>2</sup> tests require a reliable determination of the covariance matrix and its inverse from correlated and auto-correlated data, a challenging task often leading to close-to-singular estimates. These motivate modifications of the definition of χ<sup>2</sup> such as uncorrelated fits. We show how the goodness-of-fit measured by their p-value can still be estimated robustly for a broad class of such fits. KW - lattice field theory (INSPIRE) KW - covariance (INSPIRE) LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)25 DO - DOI:10.3204/PUBDB-2022-05083 UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/483012 ER -