Weird behavior with TLimit / TConfidenceLevel

Hi everybody,

I am working with the TLimit class and, after some testing, I encounter a weird behavior.

Attached is the source code I am using.
Basically it just :

  • creates 2 histograms “signal” and “background” filled with a random gaussian
  • creates histograms “data” = signal + background
  • apply TLimit class on those histograms to obtain a TConfidenceLevel
  • display values such as CLsb, CLb, ExpectedCLs_b, etc…

a) I often obtain values of CLsb which are greater than 1 (for example, 16.04). However, CLsb is supposed to be a probability. Therefore it should be between 0 and 1.
b) I always obtain a value for ExpectedCLb_sb which is about 10^3 to 10^6, for example. Same as CLsb : it is supposed to be a probability, therefore between 0 and 1.

Since this is my very first time with bug reporting, I would like to make sure that this issue is confirmed by other people before submitting a real bug report.

I’m running on Ubuntu 11.10 64bits and ROOT 5.32/01.

Thanks in advance,

Alexandre
prog.cpp (2.95 KB)

Hi,

I would suggest you to use RooStats, which is the recommended tool for computing limits and p-values. TLimit will be probably retired in one of the next release

Best Regards,
Lorenzo