Reply to Comment on ‘Analysis of decay chains of superheavy nuclei produced in the 249Bk + 48Ca and 243Am + 48Ca reactions’.

Forsberg and Leino (2019 J. Phys. G: Nucl Part Phys46 018001) question the validity of criticism (2017 J. Phys. G: Nucl. Part. Phys.44 075107) of the method proposed by Forsberg et al (2016 Nucl. Phys. A 953 117). In this reply, we show that this method is based on unclear principles and its implementation leads to the results that contradict the conclusions following from mathematical statistics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]