Limits, discovery and cut optimization for a Poisson process with uncertainty in background and signal efficiency: TRolke 2.0

DOI10.1016/J.CPC.2009.11.001MaRDI QIDQ615111zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Sumit K. Garg

Publication date 5 January 2011

Published in Computer Physics Communications (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.3450

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalshypothesis testsPoisson statisticslikelihood methodsystematic uncertainties

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parametric hypothesis testing (62F03) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25)

Abstract: A C++ class was written for the calculation of frequentist confidence intervals using the profile likelihood method. Seven combinations of Binomial, Gaussian, Poissonian and Binomial uncertainties are implemented. The package provides routines for the calculation of upper and lower limits, sensitivity and related properties. It also supports hypothesis tests which take uncertainties into account. It can be used in compiled C++ code, in Python or interactively via the ROOT analysis framework.

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• Limits, discovery and cut optimization for a Poisson process with uncertainty in background and signal efficiency: TRolke 2.0

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• Computation of confidence intervals for Poisson processes

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Uses Software

• MINUIT
• ROOT

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