Error Estimates for the Bin Contents of a Convolution Histogram
February 12, 2010
We examine a generalization of a Monte Carlo procedure commonly used to model the missing transverse energy spectrum of events. This procedure introduces correlations between spectrum bins, thereby invalidating the usual multinomial error structure. We compute the errors on the bin contents from first principles.
This paper was initially distributed as an internal note to the CMS collaboration at CERN. You can download it here.