Re: [Phys-L] Coincidence Statistics
Paul Nord wrote:
> John,
>
> I'm not quite following that. Your equation doesn't include the time bin.
>
> In my example, I had two sources at 0.1 Hz. A coincidence rate Rc was
> calculated at 0.01 Hz.
> Your equation calculates a coincidence probability of 0.91%. The agreement
> is good and the difference is most interesting.
>
> Are we assuming that the units are those of time bins?/snip/
John provided the joint probability of two independent event trains which
occur ata rate of P=0.1 per secondwhich turns out to be P = 0.009 per second.
This translates to a probability of 0.1 that any 1 second bin will be
augmentedas calculated below by Alpha
https://imgur.com/gallery/Gd6UXih