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For computations that try to encapsulate the behavior of the algorithms (see sect \ref{sect:background} for more information) two separate control regions were considered. The $dy$ dominated control region required to have an average mass of the lepton/jet pair < 250, missing energy >= 60 and at least 2 of the jets reconstructed must be b-tagged according to the CSV-L algorithm. By requiring two b-tagged jets the control region is restricted to those final states which closely resemble my target decay. And the $tt$ dominated region required the same cuts with an inverted met requirement.   Background processes were simulated using the MadGraph5 v1.5.11. For more information on this program, see \cite{Alwall_2011} v1.5.11\cite{Alwall_2011}.  Initial state samples of the target process were generated in Pythia 6 assuming a mass for the supesymmetric top at 50 GeV intervals between 200 and 800 GeV. These samples were then decayed to their final state using the same version of MadGraph5. For a description of the various background estimations, see sections \ref{sect:background} and \ref{sect:uncertainties}.