CalculateLimit

Perform a hypothesis test using the asymptotic-formulae approach (https://arxiv.org/abs/1007.1727), calculating the significiance of a discovery. The result of the calculation will be stored in the results folder and printed to the console.

Usage:

+CalculateLimit.myCalc {
  # The name of the object to be written can be set as the suffix of
  #  the action name, or with a `name` tag.
  +Test{
    +expected {
      <dataset="asimovData">
      <nPoints=50>
      <poi.min=0.>
      <poi.max=6.>
      # define the null hypothesis
      +Parameters/H0 {
        <mu=0>
      }
    }    
  }
}

The options include:

• dataset: The name of the dataset to fit.
• confidenceLevel: (default=0.9) The confidence level for which to calculate the limit.
• useCLs: (default=true) toggle whether to use CLs
• oneSided: (default=true) Calculate one-sided limits
• poi.min: minimum value of the POI to be used
• poi.max: minimum value of the POI to be used
• nPoints: number of points to evalute the POI for