The current implementation of probability distributions related to the Gamma distribution might be confusing for the following reasons:
GeneralGammaDistributionPositive is not a generalization of GammaDistributionPositive since instead of the arguments a, loc, and scale, it has arguments scale_factor, counts_total, counts_signal.
No equivalent of GeneralGammaDistributionPositive with vanishing background uncertainty exists with arguments scale_factor, counts_total, counts_signal.
The argument background_variance used in GeneralGammaDistributionPositive and GeneralGammaUpperLimit is not the variance but the standard deviation.
The current implementation of probability distributions related to the Gamma distribution might be confusing for the following reasons:
GeneralGammaDistributionPositive
is not a generalization ofGammaDistributionPositive
since instead of the argumentsa
,loc
, andscale
, it has argumentsscale_factor
,counts_total
,counts_signal
.GeneralGammaDistributionPositive
with vanishing background uncertainty exists with argumentsscale_factor
,counts_total
,counts_signal
.background_variance
used inGeneralGammaDistributionPositive
andGeneralGammaUpperLimit
is not the variance but the standard deviation.