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diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c43e61a --- /dev/null +++ b/README.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +Program to fit to Poisson distributed data. + +Uses actual Poisson probability (i.e. not Gaussians, and +therefore not least squares). + +### Installation + +Download using:<br> +``git clone https://www.av8n.com/cgit/poissfit`` + +Requires the `libnlopt-cxx-dev` package, which is easily installable on Ubuntu and similar platforms. + +In the poissfit directory, compile using a simple `make` +command. That works on my Ubuntu platform. Other platforms are likely +to work; the code uses fairly basic language features (c++11 or +later). + +Some data files, suitable for input to the program, can be found +[here](https://github.com/paulnord/bayesian_analysis). |