Re: [Help-gsl] fitting with poison statistics

[Brian Gough]

address@hidden writes:
 >   Will there be support for fitting data with poison statistics in
 >   the gsl?  I.e.  no least-squares (gaussian statistics), but
 >   rather max-log-likelihood, with the likelihood function
 >   corresponding to a poison distribution.  Best with an option to
 >   iteratively update the uncertainties to be sigma_i^2 = y(x_i),
 >   with y() being the fitted function.  This would be very useful
 >   for fitting of low statistics data.

Any contributions in this area are welcome.

-- 
Brian Gough