OpTHyLiC: an Optimised Tool for Hybrid Limits Computation

Autor:	Busato, Emmanuel, Calvet, David, Theveneaux-Pelzer, Timothée
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	High Energy Physics - Experiment Physics - Data Analysis Statistics and Probability
Zdroj:	Comput. Phys. Commun. 226 (2018) 136-150
Druh dokumentu:	Working Paper
DOI:	10.1016/j.cpc.2018.01.009
Popis:	A software tool, computing observed and expected upper limits on Poissonian process rates using a hybrid frequentist-Bayesian CLs method, is presented. This tool can be used for simple counting experiments where only signal, background and observed yields are provided or for multi-bin experiments where binned distributions of discriminating variables are provided. It allows the combination of several channels and takes into account statistical and systematic uncertainties, as well as correlations of systematic uncertainties between channels. It has been validated against other software tools and analytical calculations, for several realistic cases. Comment: 26 pages, 14 figures, 6 tables. This paper describes the software available at http://opthylic.in2p3.fr
Databáze:	arXiv
Externí odkaz:	http://arxiv.org/abs/1502.02610 Zobrazit plný text záznamu View this record from Arxiv