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Some home-truths about small samples and counting statistics
Journal Article: Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India (impact factor: 0.31). 01/2000; 28:363-365.
Abstract
Assessing a fluctuation in the sky density of astronomical objects uses counting (i.e., Poisson) statistics for estimating errors. For a finite sample, there is a limit to the maximum possible fluctuation from the mean in units of the rms. This maximum is derived, and an example is used to illustrate these concepts.
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