Fast radio bursts: search sensitivities and completeness
  In this paper we identify some sub-optimal performance in algorithms that
search for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), which can reduce the cosmological volume
probed by over 20%, and result in missed discoveries and incorrect flux density
and sky rate determinations. Re-calculating parameters for all of the FRBs
discovered with the Parkes telescope (i.e. all of the reported FRBs bar one),
we find some inconsistencies with previously determined values, e.g. FRB 010125
was approximately twice as bright as previously reported. We describe some
incompleteness factors not previously considered which are important in
determining accurate population statistics, e.g. accounting for fluence
incompleteness the Thornton et al. all-sky rate can be re-phrased as ~2500 FRBs
per sky per day above a 1.4-GHz fluence of ~2 Jy ms. Finally we make data for
the FRBs easily available, along with software to analyse these.
