Speaker
Prof.
Matorras Francisco
(Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain)
Description
Different situations appearing in HEP involve the calculation of CI for linear combinations of observations that follow a Poisson distribution. Although apparently a simple problem, no precise methods exist unless asymptotic approximations can be assumed. We propose different alternatives beyond the error propagation of Gaussian errors and estimate their performance in some common examples.
Primary author
Prof.
Matorras Francisco
(Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria, Spain)
