PROGRAM SUMMARY
Title of program:
PCI
Catalogue identifier:
ADMA
Ref. in CPC:
130(2000)190
Distribution format: gzip file
High speed store required:
20K words
Number of lines in distributed program, including test data, etc:
294
Keywords:
Poisson distribution, General purpose, Quadrature.
Programming language used: Fortran
Computer:
PC ,
Workstation ,
Mac .
Nature of physical problem:
Determination of confidence intervals for Poisson processes with
background.
Method of solution
Neyman construction using the Feldman-Cousins ordering principle.
Restrictions on the complexity of the problem
The number of background and observed events cannot be larger than 700,
due to the large size of double precision real numbers involved in
intermediate calculations.
Typical running time
1 s.
References
[1] G.J. Feldman, R.D. Cousins, Phys. Rev. D 57 (1998) 2873.