I'm trying to duplicate Excel's CHIINV to calculate confidence limits for an observed number of events. I think I'm nearly there, largely as a result of trial and error, but the boost results still significantly differ from the Excel results, so I've presumably messed up somewhere. Any advice will be *greatly* appreciated. The Excel formulas I'm using are: lo limit = CHIINV((1+$C$3)/2, 2*B6)/2 hi limit = CHIINV((1-$C$3)/2, 2*(B6+1))/2 where $C$3 is the confidence level required (95%), and B6 is the number of events observed. In Excel, 'CHIINV' is documented as:
CHIINV(probability,degrees_freedom) Probability is a probability associated with the chi-squared distribution. Degrees_freedom is the number of degrees of freedom.
For 17 events, for example, Excel is producing limits of [9.90, 27.22]. I've attached my complete boost test program below, which I hope does the same thing, but there was a large amount of guesswork here. This program produces results of [10.67, 25.98] for 17 events. Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? Thanks - Paul