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class RooStats::IntervalCalculator


IntervalCalculator is an interface class for a tools which produce RooStats ConfIntervals. The interface currently assumes that any interval calculator can be configured by specifying:

  • a model,
  • a data set,
  • a set of parameters of interest,
  • a set of nuisance parameters (eg. parameters on which the model depends, but are not of interest), and
  • a confidence level or size of the test (eg. rate of Type I error).
The interface allows one to pass the model, data, and parameters via a workspace and then specify them with names. The interface will be extended so that one does not need to use a workspace.

After configuring the calculator, one only needs to ask GetInterval, which will return a ConfInterval pointer.

The concrete implementations of this interface should deal with the details of how the nuisance parameters are dealt with (eg. integration vs. profiling) and which test-statistic is used (perhaps this should be added to the interface).

The motivation for this interface is that we hope to be able to specify the problem in a common way for several concrete calculators.



Function Members (Methods)

 
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public:
virtual~IntervalCalculator()
static TClass*Class()
virtual Double_tConfidenceLevel() const
virtual RooStats::ConfInterval*GetInterval() const
virtual TClass*IsA() const
RooStats::IntervalCalculator&operator=(const RooStats::IntervalCalculator&)
virtual voidSetConfidenceLevel(Double_t cl)
virtual voidSetData(RooAbsData&)
virtual voidSetModel(const RooStats::ModelConfig&)
virtual voidSetTestSize(Double_t size)
virtual voidShowMembers(TMemberInspector& insp)
virtual Double_tSize() const
virtual voidStreamer(TBuffer& b)
voidStreamerNVirtual(TBuffer& b)

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Function documentation

virtual ~IntervalCalculator()
{}
ConfInterval* GetInterval() const
 Main interface to get a ConfInterval, pure virtual
Double_t Size() const
 Get the size of the test (eg. rate of Type I error)
Double_t ConfidenceLevel() const
 Get the Confidence level for the test
void SetData(RooAbsData& )
 Set the DataSet ( add to the the workspace if not already there ?)
void SetModel(const RooStats::ModelConfig& )
 Set the Model
void SetTestSize(Double_t size)
 set the size of the test (rate of Type I error) ( e.g. 0.05 for a 95% Confidence Interval)
void SetConfidenceLevel(Double_t cl)
 set the confidence level for the interval (e.g. 0.95 for a 95% Confidence Interval)