Calculating Signal/Background Events in N Events

touqra · Jul 17, 2015

Hi,

suppose I have N number of events. Each event is assigned a probability of whether it is a signal event or a background event. Each probability differs from one event with another. Is it true Bayesian-wise, that, the number of signal events out of the N events is
P(signal | event 1) +...+ P(signal | event N) and the number of background events is N minus the above sum of probabilities for signal?

Thanks.

BiGyElLoWhAt · Jul 17, 2015

It seems about right to me.

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