[SciPy-User] Python significance / error interval / confidence interval module?

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Fri, Jun 17, 2011 at 05:08:16PM +0200, Christoph Deil wrote:
>    I am looking for a python module for significance / error interval /
>    confidence interval computation.

How about http://pypi.python.org/pypi/uncertainties/

>    Specifically I am looking for Poisson rate estimates in the presence of
>    uncertain background and / or efficiency, e.g. for an "on/off
>    measurement".

Wow, that seems a bit more involved than Gaussian error statistics. I am
not sure that the above package will solve your problem.

>    The standard method of Rolke I am mainly interested in is available in
>    ROOT and RooStats, a C++ high energy physics data analysis package:

If you really need proper Poisson-rate errors, then you might indeed not
to translate the Rolke method to Python. How about contributing it to
uncertainties.

G