source: trunk/MagicSoft/Mars/mbase/MMath.cc@ 3622

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/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
//
// MMath
//
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
#include "MMath.h"

ClassImp(MMath);

using namespace std;

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
// Calculate Significance as
// significance = (s-b)/sqrt(s+k*k*b) mit k=s/b
//
// s: total number of events in signal region
// b: number of background events in signal region
// 
Double_t MMath::Significance(Double_t s, Double_t b)
{
    const Double_t k = b==0 ? 0 : s/b;
    const Double_t f = s+k*k*b;

    return f==0 ? 0 : (s-b)/TMath::Sqrt(f);
}

// --------------------------------------------------------------------------
//
//  calculates the significance according to Li & Ma
//  ApJ 272 (1983) 317, Formula 17
//
//  s                    // s: number of on events
//  b                    // b: number of off events
//  alpha = t_on/t_off;  // t: observation time
//
//  Returns -1 if sum<0 or alpha<0 or the argument of sqrt<0
//  Returns  0 if s+b==0
//
Double_t MMath::SignificanceLiMa(Double_t s, Double_t b, Double_t alpha)
{
    const Double_t sum = s+b;

    if (sum==0)
        return 0;

    if (sum<0 || alpha<=0)
        return -1;

    const Double_t l = s*TMath::Log(s/sum*(alpha+1)/alpha);
    const Double_t m = b*TMath::Log(b/sum*(alpha+1)      );

    return l+m<0 ? -1 : TMath::Sqrt((l+m)*2);
}