Description
Abstract
A calculator program has been written to give confidence intervals on branching ratios for rare decay modes (or similar quantities) calculated from the number of events observed, the acceptance factor, the background estimate and the associated errors. Results from different experiments (or different channels from the same experiment) can be combined. The calculator is available in http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~barlow/limits.html.
Title of program: syslimit
Catalogue Id: ADQN_v1_0
Nature of problem
Calculating confidence intervals for a Poisson mean based on observed data, with uncertainties in efficiencies and backgrounds.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
ADQN_v1_0; syslimit; 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00588-X
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2019)
A calculator program has been written to give confidence intervals on branching ratios for rare decay modes (or similar quantities) calculated from the number of events observed, the acceptance factor, the background estimate and the associated errors. Results from different experiments (or different channels from the same experiment) can be combined. The calculator is available in http://www.slac.stanford.edu/~barlow/limits.html.
Title of program: syslimit
Catalogue Id: ADQN_v1_0
Nature of problem
Calculating confidence intervals for a Poisson mean based on observed data, with uncertainties in efficiencies and backgrounds.
Versions of this program held in the CPC repository in Mendeley Data
ADQN_v1_0; syslimit; 10.1016/S0010-4655(02)00588-X
This program has been imported from the CPC Program Library held at Queen's University Belfast (1969-2019)
| Date made available | 1 Dec 2002 |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Mendeley Data |
Keywords
- Limits
- Systemic errors
- Combination of results
- Rare processes