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Poisson Statistics with arbitrarily small bins
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Figure 5.16

The comparison of the continuous method (figure 5.14) and the binned method
(figure 5.15) on the same data set. In the limit of a large number of bins,
most bins register only zero or one count, and the binned Poisson statistic
gives nearly the same marginalized distribution for a as the continuous
statistic. For as few as two bins, the constraint on the slope is only
slightly biased.



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