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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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COMPUTER PHYSICS COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 181, Issue 3, Pages 683-686

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ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cpc.2009.11.001

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Confidence intervals; Hypothesis tests; Systematic uncertainties; Poisson statistics

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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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