Hi!
I am trying to find a simple way to maximize a likelihood like this one:
L = Poisson(N, ),
where N is a number, - depends on a parameter. I do not have any events, this is it: I need to find the value of the parameter that maximizes the likelihood.
Could anyone suggest a way to implement this? I tried to do this with RooFit by making the likelihood into a PDF, N - an observable, and fit it to a dataset with only one event that contains N. This doesn’t work however because RooFit tries to normalize the PDF, which creates an extra free parameter.
I believe that there is a way to prevent RooFit from normalizing the PDF. That would do the trick, wouldn’t it? I couldn’t find how though…
Perhaps, there is a much simpler way to do this maximization. Any suggestion would be welcome!