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A third order iterative procedure for computing exact confidence limits for poisson expectation values

โœ Scribed by Rainer Facius

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1983
Tongue
English
Weight
145 KB
Volume
16
Category
Article
ISSN
0010-4809

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โœฆ Synopsis

The calculation of exact confidence limits for the expectation value of a Poisson distribution when a single observation of K events is given by means of a second order iterative algorithm was recently presented. Here it is shown that the structure of the equations to be solved admits the use of a third order algorithm, ther.eby significantly reducing computation time, especially for pocket calculators, with practically no additional computational effort.

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