Hi Gerhard, Are you a "frequentist" or a "Bayesian"? This is in short the answer to your main question. I let the specialists debate this point. I cc your mail to the authors of the 3 classes. Just a comment to Jan Conrad (TRolke). It would be good to have some kind of output like TLimit provides. Rene Brun On Wed, 10 Nov 2004, Gerhard Brandt wrote: > > Hi, > > There are now three classes to estimate confidence levels > in ROOT: > > - TFeldmanCousins > - TLimit > - TRolke > > I have a couple of questions about these: > > 1. I guess TRolke makes TFeldmanCousins obsolete? > 2. What are the advantages of TRolke over TLimit? > 3. Has TRolke acutally been used in practice > (= in published papers)? > 4. Is there already some controversy connected with TRolke, > similar to the other methods? > 5. Why doesn't TRolke have a nice histogram interface > like TLimit? ;) > > Thanks, > Gerhard > > >
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