Poissonian statistics and source detectability in this regime

Module name: detection_stats

Author: Ian Stewart (University of Leicester, ims@star.le.ac.uk)

The subroutines in this module deal broadly with source detection in the Poissonian regime.

• probability
• Poisson probability
• Integrated Poisson probability
• Source detection limits
  • Single-band detection
  • Parallel detection over bands (with no assumptions made about source spectrum)
  
  
• Integrated Gaussian probability
• `Degrees of freedom' for a sum of likelihoods